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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

Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
PETER DRUCKER

Entrepreneur Risk
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
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
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
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.
PETER DRUCKER

Drive Future Light Night Road
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility

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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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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