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

Peter Drucker

Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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.
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Attachment Business People
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
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time

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