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It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

Peter Drucker

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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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

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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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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