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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.

Peter Drucker

A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
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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Attachment Business People
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership 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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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

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