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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 important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
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
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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
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
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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
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

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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