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

Peter Drucker

Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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
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
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
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
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business People
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner

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