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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Peter Drucker

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
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
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
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
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.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result

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