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

Peter Drucker

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
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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

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

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