You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
TOM PETERSWe often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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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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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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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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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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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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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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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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For me, reading is reading.
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Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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