The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
TOM PETERSAs a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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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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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.
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Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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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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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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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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You can only improve what you measure.
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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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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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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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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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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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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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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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