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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.

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
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
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility

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