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It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.

Peter Drucker

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
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
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing

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