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Everything possible starts in the organization from the bottom.
'The Most Important Things I Learned About Management,' System (1924)
By my count, more business leaders have failed and derailed because of arrogance than any other character flaw.
If you believe, as I do, that your employees truly are your most valuable asset, you will do whatever you can to help them do their jobs as well as possible.
The employees who share innovative ideas may also be the folks who have some hidden talents that would help incorporate their suggestions.
Employee loyalty begins with employer loyalty. Your employees should know that if they do the job they were hired to do with a reasonable amount of competence and efficiency, you will support them.
Competitive strategy is about being different. It means deliberately choosing a different set of activities to deliver a unique mix of values.
Harvard Business Review (1996)
A strategy delineates a territory in which a company seeks to be unique.
The company without a strategy is willing to try anything.
So companies have to be very schizophrenic. On one hand, they have to maintain continuity of strategy. But they also have to be good at continuously improving.
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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