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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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Business Country Growth Real
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Facts Life Reinvented White
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
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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Abet Availability Information
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Corporations Loyalty Trying
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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Change Demand Past
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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Challenges People Reading
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
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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Miserable Stuff Trying Way

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