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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.

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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner

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