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People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.

Peter Drucker

Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership 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
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
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
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right

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