Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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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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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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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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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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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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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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Hire attitude train skills.
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