Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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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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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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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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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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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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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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