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

Peter Drucker

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner

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

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