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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex � your network � instead.
Economist (1996)
Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.
The common wisdom is that... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
The professional service firm�with its obsession on clients and projects�must be the new organizational model.
Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
The excellent companies treat the rank and file as the root source of quality and productivity gain.
In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies (1988)
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
We would not knowingly hire anyone in our company that wasn't 'boundaryless,' that wasn't open to an idea from anywhere, that wasn't excited about a learning environment.
Washington Post (1997)
An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.
Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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