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Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.

Peter Drucker

If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
PETER DRUCKER

Inspirational Stop Yourself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result

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