Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
TOM PETERSBusiness is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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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 thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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For me, reading is reading.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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You can only improve what you measure.
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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