So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
PETER DRUCKERLike 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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Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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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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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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Effectiveness must be learned.
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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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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.
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