You have to stand out if you want to move up.
Leaders do stuff that matters.
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
Communication is everyone’s panacea for everything.
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
I don’t read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
As far as I’m concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It’s about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it’s about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
Good managers have a bias for action.