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The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.

Peter Drucker

One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
A well-managed factory is boring. Nothing exciting happens in it because the crises have been anticipated and have been converted into routine.
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Business Excitement
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
Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
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
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
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
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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 best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself

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