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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

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
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
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
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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

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