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

Peter Drucker

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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
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
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself

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