How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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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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Hire attitude train skills.
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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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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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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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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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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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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.
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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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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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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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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 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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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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