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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.

Peter Drucker

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
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
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
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
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
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
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
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner

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