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

Peter Drucker

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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
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
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right

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