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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 one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial.
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Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
The problem in my life and other people’s lives is not the absence of knowing what to do but the absence of doing it.
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Absence Life People Problem
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
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result

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