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Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.

Peter Drucker

Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
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
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk

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