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

Peter Drucker

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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
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
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right

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

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