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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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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Improvement Pursuit Support
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Deviltry Mad Passion Race
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Colleagues Greatest Lately Networthy
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Halos Powerful Want
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul
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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Leader Peter Principles
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Business Creativity Fun
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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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
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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Buzz Figure Sneakers Today Transcend
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Bigger Encouraged Mistake

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