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You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits

Peter Drucker

Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future 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
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
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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