How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
TOM PETERSHe who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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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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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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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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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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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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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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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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