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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.

Peter Drucker

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
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
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
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
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
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
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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 less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
It is more productive to convert an opportunity into results than to solve a problem – which only restores the equilibrium of yesterday.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise

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