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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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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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.
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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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You can only improve what you measure.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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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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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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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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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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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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