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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

A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
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
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
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
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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

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