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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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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Age Cities Congregate Digital
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
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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Careers Leadership Two
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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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Book Growth Thinking
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Ideas Passion People
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Business Educational Inspirational
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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Community People Way
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Individual Levels Mean Military War
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Average Differences Imagination
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Business Creativity Fun
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday

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