Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
TOM PETERSLeaders 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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The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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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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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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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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For me, reading is reading.
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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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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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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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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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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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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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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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