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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.

Peter Drucker

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
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship the act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth.
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Act Creation Entrepreneur Innovation Money
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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 only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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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Excellence Improvement
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

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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