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

Peter Drucker

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
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk

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