Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
TOM PETERSThe magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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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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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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You can only improve what you measure.
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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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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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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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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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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