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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 leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
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
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
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
Management is about human beings. Its task is to make people capable of joint performance, to make their strengths effective and their weaknesses irrelevant.
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Human People Strength Weakness
A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.
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Alone Person Strength Weakness
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
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

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