"As soon as you move one step..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.
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“One does not "manage" people. The task is to lead people.”
“There are usually half a dozen right answers to what needs to bedone. Yet, unless a person makes the risky and controversial choice of only one, he will achieve nothing.”
“In the next economic downturn there will be an outbreak of bitterness and contempt for the supercorporate chieftains who pay themselves millions. In every major economic downturn in US history the villains have been the heroes during the preceding boom.”
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“When your friend speaks his mind you fear not the 'nay' in your own mind, nor do you withhold the 'ay. And when he is silent your heart ceases not to listen to his heart; For without words, in friendship, all thoughts, all desires, all expectations are born and shared, with joy that is unacclaimed. When you part from your friend, you grieve not; For that which you love most in him may be clearer in his absence, as the mountain to the climber is clearer from the plain.”
“It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.”
“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”
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“With vision only, you get no follow-through. With enforcers only, the vision is realized but leaves a lot of wreckage.”
“When the president of the United States goes out at, you know, 8:00 o'clock in the morning and then his own party votes gets him 2 to 1 in the house, you know that somehow a message isn't getting out. It takes real leadership.”
“However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.”