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

Peter Drucker

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
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
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future 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.
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Attachment Business People
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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

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