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The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right

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