Hire disrespectful people.
TOM PETERSHe who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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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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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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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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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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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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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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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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