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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

Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
PETER DRUCKER

Believe Himself Ideas People
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
PETER DRUCKER

Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
PETER DRUCKER

Danger Result True Wrong
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
PETER DRUCKER

Difficult People
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
PETER DRUCKER

Courage Decision See Success Yourself
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
PETER DRUCKER

Business Creation Customer Purpose
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
PETER DRUCKER

Job Pay
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
PETER DRUCKER

Mistake People Risk
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
PETER DRUCKER

Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKER

Greatness Quite Wasted Time
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
PETER DRUCKER

Choice Decision
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
PETER DRUCKER

Goodness Planning
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
PETER DRUCKER

Decision Oneself Rule
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
PETER DRUCKER

Relationship Responsibility Yourself

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