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

Peter Drucker

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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy

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