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

Peter Drucker

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 decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right

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