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The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.

Peter Drucker

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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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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