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

Peter Drucker

Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
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
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem 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
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
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.
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Difference Excellence Job Result Worth

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