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.
TOM PETERSTo 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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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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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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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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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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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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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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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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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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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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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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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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