Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
TOM PETERSBusiness is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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We 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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Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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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 top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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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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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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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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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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