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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

Peter Drucker

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
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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

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