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

Peter Drucker

There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
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
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
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
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result

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