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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
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
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
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
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
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
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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