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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

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People 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
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral 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

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