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Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.

Peter Drucker

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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
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
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself

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