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

Peter Drucker

Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose

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