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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
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay

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