Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
TOM PETERSMastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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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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Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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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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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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The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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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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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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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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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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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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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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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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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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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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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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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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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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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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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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