"Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs."
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"Until we can manage time, we can manage nothing else."
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"No executive has ever suffered because his subordinates were strong and effective."
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"Follow effective action with quiet reflection."
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"Systematic decision review also shows executives their own weaknesses, particularly the areas in which they are simply incompetent. In these areas, smart executives don't make decisions or take actions. They delegate."
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"Fortunately or unfortunately, the one predictable thing in any organization is the crisis. That always comes. That's when you do depend on the leader: The job of the leader is to build an organization that is battle-ready, that has high morale, that knows how to behave, that trusts itself, and where people trust one another."
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"The customer rarely buys what the business thinks it sells him."
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"Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business."
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"Loafing" is easy, but "leisure" is difficult."
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"Businesses once grew by one of two ways; grass roots up, or by acquisition... Today businesses grow through alliances - all kinds of dangerous alliances. Joint ventures and customer partnerings which, by the way, very few people understand."
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"Education gives you neither experience nor wisdom."
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"Universities won't survive. The future is outside the traditional campus, outside the traditional classroom. Distance learning is coming on fast."
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"The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'"
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"Don't try to innovate for the future. Innovate for the present!"
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"The fruit of your work grows on other people's trees"
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"Strategic planning is the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial (risk-taking) decisions systematically and with the greatest knowledge of their futurity; organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions; and measuring the results of these decisions against the expectations through organized, systematic feedback."
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"Most organizations staff their problems & starve their opportunities."
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"Every organization must be prepared to abandon everything it does to survive in the future."
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"There are no creeds in mathematics."
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"Spontaneity is an infinite number of rehearsed possibilities."
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