The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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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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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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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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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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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 dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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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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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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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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