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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

Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership 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
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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 best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future 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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time

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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