Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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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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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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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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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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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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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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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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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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For me, reading is reading.
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