The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
TOM PETERSDivas 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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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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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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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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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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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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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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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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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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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 worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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