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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.

Peter Drucker

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
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.
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Efficient Moral Right
If there is any one secret of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time.
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Secret Time Worth
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
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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Goodness Planning
This defines entrepreneur and entrepreneurship – the entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
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Change Entrepreneur Opportunity Search
Business has only two functions – marketing and innovation.
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Business Innovation
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
One cannot hire a hand – the whole man always comes with it.
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Business Hands Man Oneself
A man should never be appointed to a managerial position if his vision focuses on people’s weaknesses rather than on their strengths. The man who always knows exactly what people cannot do, but never sees anything they can do, will undermine the spirit of his organization.
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Focus Man People Spirit Strength Vision Weakness
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
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
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
Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else.
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Deep Time

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