"Don't take on things you don't believe..." - Quote by Peter Drucker
Don't take on things you don't believe in and that you yourself are not good at. Learn to say no. Effective leaders match the objective needs of their company with the subjective competencies. As a result, they get an enormous amount of things done fast.
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“Trees die from the top”. No one should ever become a strategist unless he or she is willing to have his or her character serve as a model for subordinates”
“A business enterprise must continue beyond the lifetime of the individual or of the generation to be capable of producing its contributions to economy and to society.”
“Ideas are cheap and abundant; what is of value is the effective placement of those ideas into situations that develop into action.”
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“Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.”
“You don't become an effective leader by default.”
“A manager's task is to make the strengths of people effective and their weakness irrelevant - and that applies fully as much to the manager's boss as it applies to the manager's subordinates.”
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“Never lead your soldiers to battle if you have not first confirmed their spirit and known them to be without fear and ordered; and never test them except when you see that they hope to win.”
“Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.”
“First you train the followers to accomplish the mission. Second, you resource them: Make sure that they have the tools to do the job. Third, you reward them: You give them medals or bonuses.”