1-on business managment Flashcards
What you measure improves
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A’s hire A’s, B’s Hires C’s
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Don’t avoid sharp edges , occasionally they are necessary to leadership
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if you are not being criticized, you may not be doing much
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The road you don’t travel is always smoother
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Develop a few key themes and stick to them, it works, repetition is necessary, quality customer innovation services safety you pick
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test your idea in the marketplace you learn fm hearing a range of perspectives
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be aware when an idea is promoted as bold , innovative and new, they might also be foolish
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trust your instincts, success depends at least in part on the ability to carry it off, there should be no let up
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when starting at the bottom be willing to learn frm those at the top
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the tesion between short term and long term can be constructive but there will be no longterm wo a short term
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the worst mistake is to have the best ladder and the wrong wall
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if you don’t know where you are going perhaps any road can get you there
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there is nothing more difficult to take in hamd more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in introduction of a new order of things.
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So think plan develop launch and most importantly tap good people to be responsible, give them authority and hold them accountable
trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck
do not over control like a novice pilot stay loose enough so you can observe and calibrate
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what we anticipate seldom occurs what we least expected generally happens
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it is not the most strongest nor the most intelligent of the species that can that survive but the one most responsive to change
charles darwin
if you don’t like change you become irrelevant sooner than you know
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where there is no continuity there can be mo accountability
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nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be overcome first
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nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable concensus
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