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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.

Peter Drucker

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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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 most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
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
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
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
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust

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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