Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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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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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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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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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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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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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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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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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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