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

Peter Drucker

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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
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
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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

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