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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

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
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
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Power Privilege Responsibility
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
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete – the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were productive and no longer are.
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Attachment Business 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
There is only one valid definition of business purpose: to create a customer.
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Business Creation Customer Purpose
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.
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Commitment Hope Planning Promise
To be sure, the fundamental task of management remains the same: to make people capable of joint performance through common goals, common values, the right structure, and the training and development they need to perform and to respond to change.
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Change Development Fundamental Goal Need People Structure Training Value
A decision without an alternative is a desperate gambler’s throw.
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Choice Decision
If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.
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Inspirational Stop Yourself
The first rule in decision-making is that one does not make a decision unless there is disagreement.
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Decision Oneself Rule
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important

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