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

Peter Drucker

Success in the knowledge economy comes to those who know themselves – their strengths, their values, and how they best perform.
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Knowledge Strength Success Value
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
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
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
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.
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Mistake People Risk
Trying to predict the future is like trying to drive down a country road at night with no lights while looking out the back window.
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Drive Future Light Night Road
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
The three most charismatic leaders in this century inflicted more suffering on the human race than almost any trio in history: Hitler, Stalin, and Mao. What matters is not the leader’s charisma. What matters is the leader’s mission.
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History Human Leadership Suffering
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
There is nothing quite so useless, as doing with great efficiency, something that should not be done at all.
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Greatness Quite Wasted Time
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation

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