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

Peter Drucker

When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
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
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
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
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 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
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result

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