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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

People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
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
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
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result

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