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

Peter Drucker

Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
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
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
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
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
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Best Creation Future Yourself
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
The computer is a moron.
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Stupidity Technology
Keep your eye on the task, not on yourself. The task matters, and you are a servant.
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Eyes Job Yourself
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner
Intelligence, imagination, and knowledge are essential resources, but only effectiveness converts them into results.
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Imagination Intelligence Result
There is surely nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency what should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite

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