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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

The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
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
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
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay

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