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The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

Peter Drucker

Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
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
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
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
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result

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