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

Peter Drucker

It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
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Courage Decision See Success Yourself
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
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
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 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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself

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