- Nov 07, 2020
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- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.
- Cell Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cell phone has become the adult's transitional object, replacing the toddler's teddy bear for comfort and a sense of belonging.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great deal of creativity is about pattern recognition, and what you need to discern patterns is tons of data. Your mind collects that data by taking note of random details and anomalies easily seen every day: quirks and changes that, eventually, add up to insights.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Very few entrepreneurs start their business on the back of market research. Instead, they have tremendous zeitgeist, honed by paying attention to where they are.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think a true company - one that builds sustainable value - can ever only exist online or remotely.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best remote companies I've seen do almost everything online, via email and telephone. But they also get together face to face on a regular basis.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Clearing your head of distractions in order to notice and understand the people you are with can feel inefficient - there are so many other people and issues to think about. But being present makes you effective.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm all for ambition and stretch goals. I set them for myself. But leadership isn't the same as cheerleading. Believing in something is a necessary but absolutely insufficient condition for making it come true.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
If the company depends entirely on you - your creativity, ingenuity, inspiration, salesmanship or charisma - nobody will want to buy it. The risk and the dependency are too great.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Companies are bought for their revenue, customer base, technology, or people. A few great companies offer all of these, but any valuable business offers one.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
What do you want your business to do? Make money, of course. To pay for people and supplies, to be able to grow.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Customers who have to come back and spend, or customers who just don't want the hassle of leaving - those are the ones who are most worth attracting.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Business is not a science; it is not susceptible to experiments that can be controlled and replicated. Everything in business is too unpredictable for that - every business, employee, product, market is different and keeps changing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.
- Great Advantage
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great advantage of a large corporation is supposed to be the large pool of talent in which its leaders can find and groom high achievers and successors.
- Characterized
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- Nov 07, 2020
The healthiest companies are always characterized by organic talent development.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone I know feels harassed by email which has invaded their waking and sleeping hours.
- Free
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- Nov 07, 2020
The truth won't set us free - until we develop the skills and the habit and the talent and the moral courage to use it.
- Hidden
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- Nov 07, 2020
The biggest catastrophes that we've witnessed rarely come from information that is secret or hidden. It comes from information that is freely available and out there, but that we are willfully blind to.
- Bad Movie
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- Nov 07, 2020
Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't mind if the couple next to me is tense or the kids are whiny. I'd even be happy to hear an honest argument, evidence of thinking. I'd like to know these teeth-perfect families don't just buy each other stuff but just occasionally can talk to one another.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hate people walking down the street listening to the soundtrack of their lives which responds to them but not their setting. I hate the overspill of sound which metro and subway riders are oblivious to because they notice no one and nothing around them.
- Design
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- Nov 07, 2020
British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I haven't always hated McDonald's. When my kids were little and I lived in the U.S., they were as susceptible as anyone to Happy Meals and tatty toys that subsequently littered our sitting room.
- Knows
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- Nov 07, 2020
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The vast literature concerning whistleblowers shows that, far from weird extremists, they are really quite ordinary people: male and female, young and old, junior and senior, no more nerdy or obsessive than most hard workers.
- Nov 07, 2020
One of the sad truths about leadership is that, the higher up the ladder you travel, the less you know.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once you have power, you are inevitably surrounded by people who have their own agendas and will tell you whatever advances them.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The single hardest part of leading any organization is knowing what is going on. There's too much noise in the system, too much complexity: you absolutely depend on people speaking up and raising concerns.
- Organization
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every organization has issues and concerns which are known about by many people who choose to remain silent.
- Promises
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- Nov 07, 2020
Those in powerless positions aren't about to complain about bullying bosses, abusive supervisors or corrupt co-workers. There is no safe way to do so and no process that promises redress.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
How can any company know if its processes, products, people are safe? Only if everyone is watching and telling the truth. The first part can be assumed; the second cannot.
- Flowers
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everywhere I look, there are ads marking Mother's Day. Mostly they conform to stereotype: flowers, jewelry, perfume. Not a lot of books. Not many computers. Few tools. Little that's useful.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a mother, I work hard every day and I expect that work to be recognized and appreciated. Because I work for and with human beings, sometimes they're grateful and sometimes they aren't.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020