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No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

Peter Drucker

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
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
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
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.

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