The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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What gets measured gets done.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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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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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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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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