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The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,

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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
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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Business Dull Lunch
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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Business Remembers Everything Vulnerable
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Improvement Pursuit Support
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past

The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,

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The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,

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