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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

Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right

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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