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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

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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
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
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
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning

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