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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.

Peter Drucker

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

Business Job Oneself Time
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
PETER DRUCKER

Attachment Business People

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