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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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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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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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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