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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

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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
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

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