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A person can perform only from strength. One cannot build performance on weakness, let alone on something one cannot do at all.

Peter Drucker

A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership 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
Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
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
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn.
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Acceptance Change Learning People Teaching
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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 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

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