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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 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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
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
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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

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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