Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company’s success.
If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I’ve gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
You are your projects!
There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the “utmost importance and urgency” of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is “the premier way” to have “intimate conversations” with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!
Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one.
It’s relatively simple. If we’re not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we’re getting less, no better or more worse.
Hire disrespectful people.
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
We are all Michaelangelos.
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.
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.