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When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.

Peter Drucker

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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

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