If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
TOM PETERSDon’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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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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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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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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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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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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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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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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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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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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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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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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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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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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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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