Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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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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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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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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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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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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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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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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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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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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