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An effective leader knows that the ultimate task of leadership is to create human energies and human vision.
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290 |
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What effective decision makers have learned is to start out with the assumption that the way the problems looks, in all likelihood, is not what it really is.
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298 |
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…only individual knowledge workers can decide how to organize their information so that it becomes their key to effective action.
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349 |
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Innovations that exploit changes in market structure are particularly effective if one very large manufacturer or supplier dominates the industry and its markets during a period of rapid growth.
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400 |
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Organization is unique to each individual business or institution… structure, to be effective, must follow strategy.
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410 |
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Organizations have to have values. But so do people. To be effective in an organization, one’s own values must be compatible with the organization’s values. They do not need to be the same. But they must be close enough so they can coexist.
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490 |
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The first secret of effectiveness is to understand the people with whom one works and on whom one depends, and to make use of their strengths, their ways of working, and their values.
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494 |
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Accept it – different people need to be informed differently. And if you don’t adjust yourself to the way each of your bosses gets the message, you’ll be ineffectual.
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503 |
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The fact that Mavens want to help, for no other reason than because they like to help, turns out to be an awfully effective way of getting someone’s attention.
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067 |
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…few things are more effective for squashing conflict and dissent than success.
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055 |
