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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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What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right

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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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