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

Peter Drucker

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership 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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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

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