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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

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
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
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching

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