The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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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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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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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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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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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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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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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 day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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