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“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”
― Peter Drucker, Essential Drucker

“The best way to predict your future is to create it”
― Peter Drucker

“If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old”
― Peter Drucker

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes; but no plans.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“No one learns as much about a subject as one who is forced to teach it.”
― Peter Drucker

“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“Efficiency is doing the thing right. Effectiveness is doing the right thing.”
― Peter F. Drucker

“The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say "I." And that's not because they have trained themselves not to say "I." They don't think "I." They think "we"; they think "team." They understand their job to be to make the team function. They accept responsibility and don't sidestep it, but "we" gets the credit. This is what creates trust, what enables you to get the task done.”
― Peter Drucker

“The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.”
― Peter Drucker

“Business has only two functions — marketing and innovation.”
― Peter Drucker

“What's measured improves”
― Peter Drucker

“a ‘change’ is any activity that is physical, logical, or virtual to applications, databases, operating systems, networks, or hardware that could impact services being delivered.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“Any improvement made after the bottleneck is useless, because it will always remain starved, waiting for work from the bottleneck. And any improvements made before the bottleneck merely results in more inventory piling up at the bottleneck.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“Your job as vp of it Operations is to ensure the fast, predictable, and uninterrupted flow of planned work that delivers value to the business while minimizing the impact and disruption of unplanned work, so you can provide stable, predictable, and secure it service.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“The First Way helps us understand how to create fast flow of work as it moves from Development into IT Operations, because that’s what’s between the business and the customer. The Second Way shows us how to shorten and amplify feedback loops, so we can fix quality at the source and avoid rework. And the Third Way shows us how to create a culture that simultaneously fosters experimentation, learning from failure, and understanding that repetition and practice are the prerequisites to mastery.”
― Gene Kim, The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win

“While most entrepreneurs wake up and think they need to focus on doing more so they can achieve more, you’re about to discover that the real secret is all about becoming more so that you can achieve more by doing less.”
― Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs: Elevate Yourself to Elevate Your business

“The hardest part about getting up an hour earlier is the first five minutes.”
― Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs: Elevate Yourself to Elevate Your business

“Minute One: Set Your Intentions Before Bed The first key to waking up is to understand this: Your first thought in the morning is usually the same as your last thought before you went to sleep.”
― Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs: Elevate Yourself to Elevate Your business

“The first step is to consciously decide—every night, before bed—to actively and mindfully create a positive expectation for the next morning. Visualize it and affirm it to yourself.”
― Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs: Elevate Yourself to Elevate Your business

“Silence Affirmations Visualization Exercise Reading Scribing”
― Hal Elrod, The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs: Elevate Yourself to Elevate Your business