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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

Peter Drucker

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
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner

There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.

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