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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

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
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
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 doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right

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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