Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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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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Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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If 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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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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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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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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