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

Peter Drucker

There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
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
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
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 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
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job 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

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