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Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.

Peter Drucker

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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
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
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering

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