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

Peter Drucker

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
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
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.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
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
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
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
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise

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