You are your projects!
TOM PETERSYour 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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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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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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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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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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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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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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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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