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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

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result

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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