Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
TOM PETERSCustomers 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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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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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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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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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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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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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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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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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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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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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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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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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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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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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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