Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
TOM PETERSThe magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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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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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 populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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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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Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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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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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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