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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

There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
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
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result

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