The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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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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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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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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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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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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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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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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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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