The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
TOM PETERSThe top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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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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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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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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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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Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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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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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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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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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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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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