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So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

Peter Drucker

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
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
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
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
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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
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

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