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.
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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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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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 day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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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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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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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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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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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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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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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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