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

Peter Drucker

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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People

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