The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
TOM PETERSLearning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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You can only improve what you measure.
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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