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Plan, organize, integrate, motivate, and measure.
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Integrity Motivational Planning
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
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.
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Deep Different Leadership Right
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
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Communication Deep Important
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
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
It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.
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Excellence Improvement
Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.
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Character Leadership Result
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
No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.
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Force Learning Oneself Teaching
Results are obtained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.
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Opportunity Problem Result
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
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.
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Education Important
There is no such thing as a good man. Good for what? is the question.
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Goodness Man Philosophy
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
Effective executives know that their subordinates are paid to perform and not to please their superiors.
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Job Pay
Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
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Change Help Job Leadership Yourself
Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.
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Action Deep Inspirational Quiet Reflection
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.
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Difficult People
Managing yourself requires taking responsibility for relationships.
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Relationship Responsibility Yourself
History has been written not by the most talented but by the most motivated.
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History Motivational Talent Writing
Entrepreneurship is risky mainly because so few of the so-called entrepreneurs know what they are doing.
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Entrepreneur Risk
Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.
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Art Entrepreneur Practice Science
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
Effectiveness must be learned.
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Learning One Liner
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
Working on the right things is what makes knowledge work effective.
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Inspirational Knowledge Right

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