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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.

Peter Drucker

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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
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

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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