Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
TOM PETERSNow that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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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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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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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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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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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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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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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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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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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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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 widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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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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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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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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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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We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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