I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
TOM PETERSA passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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The good news – and it is largely good news – is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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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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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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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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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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Hire disrespectful people.
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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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You are your projects!
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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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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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