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Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.

Peter Drucker

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
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
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
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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

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