The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
TOM PETERSI’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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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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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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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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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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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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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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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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Hire disrespectful people.
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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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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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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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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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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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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Your 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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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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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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We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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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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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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