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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

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
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
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur 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
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility

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