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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

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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
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
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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

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