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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

1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
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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Secret Time Worth
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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
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
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility

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