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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

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.
PETER DRUCKER

Commitment Failure Man Mistake Oneself Phone Safety Trust
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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
The less an organization has to do to produce results, the better it does its job.
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Better Business Job Result
The aim of marketing is to know and understand the customer so well the product or service fits him and sells itself.
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Customer Himself Understand
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.
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Knowledge Responsible
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
Like so many brilliant people, he believes that ideas move mountains. But bulldozers move mountains; ideas show where the bulldozers should go to work.
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Believe Himself Ideas People
By themselves, character and integrity do not accomplish anything. But their absence faults everything else. Here, therefore, is the one area where weakness is a disqualification by itself rather than a limitation on performance capacity and strength.
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Accomplishment Character Integrity Limitation Strength Weakness
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
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
1. What is our mission? 2. Who is our customer? 3. What does the customer value? 4. What are our results? 5. What is our plan?
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Customer Mission Ourselves Planning Result
What’s measured improves.
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Improvement One Liner

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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