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All organizations
are perfectly aligned to get the results they get.
That's one of the major problems in organizations.
Stephen Covey
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How can a team of
committed managers with individual IQ’s of over 120
have a collective IQ of 63?
Peter Senge
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Lost in the info
bog!
Rick Tetzeli
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Human beings were
held accountable long before there were corporate bureaucracies.
If the knight didn't deliver, the king cut off his head.
Alvin Toffler
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When was the last
time you saw a spirited, obsessed, energetic unit of 3,000 people?
Tom Peters
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Once it starts
to get impersonal, it's time to break up a company.
Richard Branson
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In spite of what
your client may tell you, there's always a problem. And no matter how it
looks at first, it's always a people problem.
Gerald Weinberg
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No wonder so many
businesses are going down - with all these jerks running them!
D. Murray
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It is time to
stop paving the cow patties. Instead of embedding outdated processes in
silicon and software, we should obliterate them and start over.
Michael Hammer
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Tell me, honestly,
the last time something inspiring or clever happened
at that big table in your office?
Tom Peters
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No networking
for a new job permitted on company time.
Harvard Business Review
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We don't want
to rub the edge off everybody to the point that the whole place is round.
Jack Welch
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In our business
nothing is permanent and everything must be re-thought and reconsidered.
The only constant is change and the best way
to predict the future is to invent it.
The Limited
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Competitive advantage
is ... positioning a business to maximize the value of its capabilities
that distinguish it from competitors.
Michael E. Porter
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Start with the
assumption that quality makes money, it doesn’t cost money.
And start with the assumption that the worker knows more about the job
than anyone else - or he or she shouldn’t be doing it.
Peter Drucker
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Strategies are
okayed in boardrooms that even a child would say are bound to fail.
The problem is, there’s never a child in the boardroom.
Victor Palmieri
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I think I figured
out why these little businesses work - they’ve got to.
Andrea Meyer
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Don't just stand
there, buy something!
'Honest' Ed Mirvish
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Profit is like
oxygen, food, water and blood for the body; they are not the point of life,
but without them, there is no life.
J.C.Collins & J.I.Porras
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When your roots
are deep in local markets you see opportunities others may miss.
You're in the middle of every important flow.
J. P. Morgan
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Somebody's got
to be able to say. " cut the crap - there's a customer on the phone."
That somebody is you.
Terry Neill
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I never set out
to see how I could make the most cash. I've always merely tried to make
the figures fit the ideas I've had rather than the other way around.
I guess that's doing it backwards.
Richard Branson
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At some point
each of us has to discover that our self-interest is better served by doing
good work than getting good things. The more our job and our survival are
on the line, the easier it is to make this discovery. In this way hard
times are an ally.
Peter Block
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The role of an
executive is not to dictate but to provide workers with whatever they need
to serve the customers in the stores - merchandise, capital, information,
inspiration -
and then get out of the way.
Sam Walton
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In business as
in art, what distinguishes leaders from laggards, and greatness from mediocrity,
is the ability to uniquely imagine what could be.
G. Hamel & C.K. Prahalad
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