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Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.

Peter Drucker

Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness 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
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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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Human People Strength Weakness
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

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