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Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.

Peter Drucker

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job 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
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result

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