3.6 · 20 votes
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Thought and Reason
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.3.8 · 15 votes · 41 reads
Virtues
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.3.1 · 16 votes · 67 reads
Government and Politics
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.4.6 · 62 votes · 117 reads
Various
My greatest strength as a consultant is to be ignorant and ask a few questions.4.7 · 26 votes · 191 reads
Society
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.3.4 · 40 votes · 178 reads
Government and Politics
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.3.3 · 6 votes · 150 reads
Society
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.4.2 · 54 votes · 100 reads
Various
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.4.8 · 7 votes · 38 reads
Science and Technology
The new information technology... Internet and e-mail... have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.3.5 · 38 votes · 2 reads
Society
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.3.0 · 33 votes · 171 reads
Society
Time is the scarcest resource and unless it is managed nothing else can be managed.3.9 · 60 votes · 195 reads
Virtues
Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.3.6 · 59 votes · 133 reads
Various
Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.3.2 · 61 votes · 11 reads
Art and Culture
When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course.4.5 · 44 votes · 143 reads
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