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• You are more likely to acquire power by narrowing your focus and applying your energies, like the sun's rays, to a limited…
• Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the…
• Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.
• Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart. After…
• You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.
• Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.
• Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While…
• Point at solutions instead of at each other.
• Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards…
• Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly…
• Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to…
• Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.

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