The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
TOM PETERSYou 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 whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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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 can only improve what you measure.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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You are your projects!
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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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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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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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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