Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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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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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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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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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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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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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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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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