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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

By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
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
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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
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 purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner

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.

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