All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
TOM PETERSHow do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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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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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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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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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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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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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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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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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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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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