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

Peter Drucker

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology

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