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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.

Peter Drucker

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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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

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