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Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.

Peter Drucker

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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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

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