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

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
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
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right

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