I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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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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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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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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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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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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