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.
TOM PETERSThe dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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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 live life without an eraser.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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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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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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