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Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.

Peter Drucker

Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
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
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 best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
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
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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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Secret Time Worth
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence 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
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 computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
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

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