Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
TOM PETERSLeaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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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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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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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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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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You are your projects!
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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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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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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The good news – and it is largely good news – is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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