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

Peter Drucker

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
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
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
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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
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

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