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Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

Peter Drucker

Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
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
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
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite
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
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
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result

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