The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
TOM PETERSExcellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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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 best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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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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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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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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