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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

There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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 first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner

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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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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