Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
TOM PETERSLeaders’ 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 difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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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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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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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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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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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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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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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.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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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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