The good news – and it is largely good news – is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark
TOM PETERSWinners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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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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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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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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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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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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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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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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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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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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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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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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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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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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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 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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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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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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