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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…
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Your most important task as a leader is to teach people how to think and ask the right questions so that the…
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Knowledge is only useful if you do something with it.
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Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart. After…
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You can't be normal and expect abnormal returns.
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Successful organizations understand the importance of implementation, not just strategy, and, moreover, recognize the crucial role of their people in this process.
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Advocates of knowledge management as the next big thing have advanced the proposition that what companies need is more intellectual capital. While…
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Point at solutions instead of at each other.
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Possibly the biggest issue, however, is that performance appraisals focus managers attention on precisely the wrong thing: individual people. As W. Edwards…
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Typical pay increases are not enough to motivate employees, but they are enough to irritate them. … Even when companies create seemingly…
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Profits are related to customer retention. Customer retention is related to employee retention. Employee retention may or may not be related to…
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Most organisations say they want creativity, but really they do not.
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A thing well said will be wit in all languages.
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Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.
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Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any.
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Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.
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In an age of specialization people are proud to be able to do one thing well, but if that is all they…
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Doing the right thing is important, which is where strategy comes in. But doing that thing well—execution—is what sets companies apart. After…
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