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Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.

Peter Drucker

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
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
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement

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