A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague set, and constantly reinvent you as a brand.
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.
Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
Do it, fix it, try it.
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
Don’t settle for less than is possible.
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere.
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.
Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
It’s this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.
Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.