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

Peter Drucker

The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
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
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 computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create 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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result

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