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

Peter Drucker

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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself

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