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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.

Peter Drucker

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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
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
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose

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