I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
TOM PETERSThe thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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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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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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Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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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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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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