Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
TOM PETERSEntrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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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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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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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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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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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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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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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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Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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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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Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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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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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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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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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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