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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

If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
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
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
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
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise

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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