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There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.

Peter Drucker

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
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
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
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success 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

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