The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
TOM PETERSThe company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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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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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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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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