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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

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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop 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
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
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

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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