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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

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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
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
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
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
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing

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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