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

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
PETER DRUCKER

Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness

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