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Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

Peter Drucker

Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness

Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.

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