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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

No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
PETER DRUCKER

Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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 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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
Is this still worth doing? And if it isn’t, he gets rid of it so as to be able to concentrate on the few tasks that, if done with excellence, will really make a difference in the results of his own job and in the performance of his organization.
PETER DRUCKER

Difference Excellence Job Result Worth
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
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
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
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
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop 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

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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