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

Peter Drucker

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
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
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
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
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
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 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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
You should not change yourself, but create yourself, that mean build around your strengths and removing bad habits
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Bad Change Creation Habit Strength Yourself
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
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

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