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.
TOM PETERSBecome 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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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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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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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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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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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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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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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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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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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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Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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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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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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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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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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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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For me, reading is reading.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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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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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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