Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
TOM PETERSForget 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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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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I’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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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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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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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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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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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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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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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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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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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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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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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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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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