The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
TOM PETERSEntrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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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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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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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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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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