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

Peter Drucker

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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
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
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
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
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself

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