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

Peter Drucker

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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
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

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