The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
From Tom Peters
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal.
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
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.
One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.
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