The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
TOM PETERSIf 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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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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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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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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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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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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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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I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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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 good news – and it is largely good news – is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark
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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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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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Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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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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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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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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