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Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.

Peter Drucker

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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
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

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