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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

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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Meetings are by definition a concession to deficient organization For one either meets or one works. One cannot do both at the same time.
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Business Job Oneself Time
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
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
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
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

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