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

Peter Drucker

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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
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
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
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility

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