Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when we don’t quite make it, we inevitably wind up doing much better than we would have done.
If you’re a leader and you’re the smartest guy in the world – in the room, you’ve got real problems.
Trust happens when leaders are transparent.
The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.
The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders – people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they lead.
No one can guarantee you a job other than satisfied customers. That’s the only thing that works. Nothing creates work other than products and services you provide that create satisfied customers.
The world belongs to passionate driven people.
We know where most of the creativity, the innovation, the stuff that drives productivity lies – in the minds of those closest to the work.
Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making.
HR should be every company’s killer app. What could possibly be more important than who gets hired?
A leader’s role is not to control people or stay on top of things, but rather to guide, energize and excite.
Strategy is not a lengthy action plan. It is the evolution of a central idea through continually changing circumstances.
First and most obvious, bring out the three old warhorses of competition – cost, quality, and service – and drive them to new levels, making every person in the organization see them for what they are, a matter of survival.
I might not be the brightest bulb in the chandelier, but I’m pretty good at getting most of the other bulbs to light up.
The team with the best players wins.
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be.
The Internet is the Viagra of big business.
Genuine leadership comes from the quality of your vision and your ability to spark others to extraordinary performance.
Excellence and competitiveness aren’t incompatible with honesty and integrity.
Don’t make the process harder than it is.