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

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
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.
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Danger Result True Wrong
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop 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
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
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
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep 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
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

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