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

Peter Drucker

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
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
PETER DRUCKER

Decision Oneself Rule
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
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 only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result

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