If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
TOM PETERSWhat have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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What gets measured gets done.
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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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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You are your projects!
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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