To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
TOM PETERSThe 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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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 good news – and it is largely good news – is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark
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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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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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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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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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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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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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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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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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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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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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Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Mastery 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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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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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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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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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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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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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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