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A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.

Peter Drucker

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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
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
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
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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

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