Tom Peters

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Tom Peters We Are in a Brawl with No
RulesNextel/Witness the POWER of
Wireless/11.04.2002
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We are in a brawl with no rules.Paul Allaire
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The corporation as we know it, which is now 120
years old, is not likely to survive the next 25
years. Legally and financially, yes, but not
structurally and economically.Peter Drucker,
Business 2.0 (08.00)
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All Bets Are Off.
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IT MAY SOMEDAY BE SAID THAT THE 21ST CENTURY
BEGAN ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001. Al-Qaeda
represents a new and profoundly dangerous kind of
organizationone that might be called a virtual
state. On September 11th a virtual state proved
that modern societies are vulnerable as never
before.Time/09.09.2002
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The deadliest strength of Americas new
adversaries is their very fluidity, Defense
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld believes. Terrorist
networks, unburdened by fixed borders,
headquarters or conventional forces, are free to
study the way this nation responds to threats and
adapt themselves to prepare for what Mr. Rumsfeld
is certain will be another attack. Business
as usual wont do it, he said. His answer is to
develop swifter, more lethal ways to fight. Big
institutions arent swift on their feet in
adapting but rather ponderous and clumsy and
slow. The New York Times/09.04.2002
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In an era when terrorists use satellite phones
and encrypted email, US gatekeepers stand armed
against them with pencils and paperwork, and
archaic computer systems that dont talk to each
other.Boston Globe (09.30.2001)
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Dawn Meyerreicks, CTO of the Defense
Intelligence Systems Agency, made one of the most
fateful military calls of the 21st century. After
9/11 her office quickly leased all the
available transponders covering Central Asia. The
implications should change everything about U.S.
military thinking in the years ahead. The U.S.
Air Force had kicked off its fight against the
Taliban with an ineffective bombing campaign, and
Washington was anguishing over whether to send in
a few Army divisions. Donald Rumsfeld told Gen.
Tommy Franks to give the initiative to 250
Special Forces already on the ground. They used
satellite phones, Predator surveillance drones,
and GPS- and laser-based targeting systems to
make the air strikes brutally effective.In
effect, they Napsterized the battlefield by
cutting out the middlemen (much of the militarys
command and control) and working directly with
the real players. The data came in so fast that
HQ revised operating procedures to allow
intelligence analysts and attack planners to work
directly together. Their favorite tool,
incidentally, was instant messaging over a secure
network.Ned Desmond/Broadbands New Killer
App/Business 2.0/ OCT2002
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From Weapon v. Weapon To
Org structure v. Org structure
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The organizations we created have become
tyrants. They have taken control, holding us
fettered, creating barriers that hinder rather
than help our businesses. The lines that we drew
on our neat organizational diagrams have turned
into walls that no one can scale or penetrate or
even peer over. Frank Lekanne Deprez René
Tissen, Zero Space Moving Beyond Organizational
Limits.
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Eric Shinsekis (New) ArmyFlat.Fast.Ag
ile.Adaptable.Light But Lethal.Info-intense.
Network-centric. Talent/ I AM AN ARMY OF ONE.
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2. The Destruction Imperative.
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ForgetgtLearnThe problem is never how to get
new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how
to get the old ones out.Dee Hock
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Forbes100 from 1917 to 1987 39 members of the
Class of 17 were alive in 87 18 in 87 F100
18 F100 survivors underperformed the market by
20 just 2 (2), GE Kodak, outperformed the
market 1917 to 1987.SP 500 from 1957 to 1997
74 members of the Class of 57 were alive in 97
12 (2.4) of 500 outperformed the market from
1957 to 1997.Source Dick Foster Sarah
Kaplan, Creative Destruction Why Companies That
Are Built to Last Underperform the Market
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Good management was the most powerful reason
leading firms failed to stay atop their
industries. Precisely because these firms
listened to their customers, invested
aggressively in technologies that would provide
their customers more and better products of the
sort they wanted, and because they carefully
studied market trends and systematically
allocated investment capital to innovations that
promised the best returns, they lost their
positions of leadership.Clayton Christensen,
The Innovators Dilemma
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It is generally much easier to kill an
organization than change it substantially.
Kevin Kelly, Out of Control
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C.E.O. to C.D.O.
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No Wiggle Room! Incrementalism is innovations
worst enemy. Nicholas Negroponte
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Axiom (Hypothesis) We have been screwed by
Benchmarking Best Practice C.I./Kaizen.
Axiom (Hypothesis) We need Masters of
Discontinuity/ Masters of Ambiguity in
discontinuous/ambiguous times.
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The difficulties arise from the inherent
conflict between the need to control existing
operations and the need to create the kind of
environment that will permit new ideas to
flourishand old ones to die a timely death. We
believe that most corporations will find it
impossible to match or outperform the market
without abandoning the assumption of continuity.
The current apocalypsethe transition from a
state of continuity to state of discontinuityHas
the same suddenness as the trauma that beset
civilization in 1000 A.D. Richard Foster
Sarah Kaplan, Creative Destruction (The
McKinsey Quarterly)
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre
successes.Phil Daniels, Sydney exec
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3. The White Collar Revolution the Death of
Bureaucracy.
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108 X 5vs. 8 X 1 540 vs. 8 (-98.5)
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E.g. Jeff Immelt 75 of admin, back room,
finance digitalized in 3 years.Source BW
(01.28.02)
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The coefficient of friction associated with the
grunge of business is amazing!Michael Schrage
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IBMs Project eLiza! Self-bootstrapping/
Artilects
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A bureaucrat is an expensive microchip.Dan
Sullivan, consultant and executive coach
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Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our
DNA through altering our genetic makeup,
computer-generated robots will take over the
world. Stephen Hawking, in the German magazine
Focus
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4. IS/ IT/ Web On the Bus or Off the Bus.
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100 square feet
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Impact No. 1/ Logistics Distribution
WalMart Dell Amazon.com Autobytel.com
FedEx UPS Ryder Cisco Etc. Etc. Ad
Infinitum.
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Autobytel 400. WalMart 13.Source
BW(05.13.2002)
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WebWorld Everything Web as a way to run your
businesss innardsWeb as connector for your
entire supply-demand chain Web as spiders web
which re-conceives the industryWeb/B2B as
ultimate wake-up call to commodity
producersWeb as the scourge of slack,
inefficiency, sloth, bureaucracy, poor customer
dataWeb as an Encompassing Way of LifeWeb
Everything (P.D. to after-sales)Web forces you
to focus on what you do bestWeb as entrée, at
any size, to Worlds Best at Everything as next
door neighbor
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Ebusiness is about rebuilding the organization
from the ground up. Most companies today are not
built to exploit the Internet. Their business
processes, their approvals, their hierarchies,
the number of people they employ all of that is
wrong for running an ebusiness.Ray Lane,
Kleiner Perkins
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Message eCommerce is not a technology play! It
is a relationship, partnership, organizational
and communications play, made possible by new
technologies.
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Message There is no such thing as an effective
B2B or Internet-supply chain strategy in a
low-trust, bottlenecked-communication, six-layer
organization.
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Theres no use trying, said Alice. One cant
believe impossible things. I daresay you
havent had much practice, said the Queen. When
I was your age, I always did it for half an hour
a day. Why, sometimes Ive believed as many as
six impossible things before breakfast.Lewis
Carroll
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Inet allows you to dream dreams you could
never have dreamed before!
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Dont rebuild. Reimagine.The New York Times
Magazine on the future of the WTC space in Lower
Manhattan/09.08.2002
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Case CRM
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CRM has, almost universally, failed to live up
to expectations. Butler Group (UK)
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CGEY (Paul Cole) Pleasant Transaction vs.
Systemic Opportunity. Better job of what we do
today vs. Re-think overall enterprise strategy.
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5. The Heart of the Value Added Revolution The
Solutions Imperative.
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The Big Day!
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09.11.2000 HP bids 18,000,000,000for
PricewaterhouseCoopersconsulting business!
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These days, building the best server isnt
enough. Thats the price of entry.Ann
Livermore, Hewlett-Packard
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Gerstners IBM Systems Integrator of choice.
Global Services 35B. Pledge/99 Business
Partner Charter. 72 strategic partners, aim for
200. Drop many in-house programs/products.
(BW/12.01).
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We want to be the air traffic controllers of
electrons.Bob Nardelli, GE Power Systems
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Customer Satisfaction to Customer
SuccessWere getting better at Six Sigma
every day. But we really need to think about the
customers profitability. Are customers bottom
lines really benefiting from what we provide
them?Bob Nardelli, GE Power Systems
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Nardellis goal (50B to 100B by 2005)
move Home Depot beyond selling goods to selling
home services. He wants to capture home
improvement dollars wherever and however they are
spent. E.g. house calls (At-Home Service
10B by 05?) pros shops (Pro Set) home
project management (Project Management System
a deeper selling relationship).Source USA
Today/06.14.2002
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UPS wants to take over the sweet spot in the
endless loop of goods, information and capital
that all the packages it moves
represent.ecompany.com/06.01 (E.g., UPS
Logistics manages the logistics of 4.5M Ford
vehicles, from 21 mfg. sites to 6,000 NA dealers)
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No longer are we only an insurance provider.
Today, we also offer our customers the products
and services that help them achieve their dreams,
whether its financial security, buying a car,
paying for home repairs, or even taking a dream
vacation.Martin Feinstein, CEO, Farmers Group
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Keep In Mind Customer Satisfaction versus
Customer Success
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KEY WORDS Partners with our Customers in
creating Memorable, Value-added Solutions/
Successes/ Experiences. WHICH REQUIRES Total
Enterprise Responsiveness beyond functional
walls.
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6. A World of Scintillating/ Awesome/WOW
Experiences.
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Experiences are as distinct from services as
services are from goods.Joseph Pine James
Gilmore, The Experience Economy Work Is Theatre
Every Business a Stage
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The Experience LadderExperiences
ServicesGoods Raw Materials
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The Starbucks Fix Is on We have
identified a third place. And I really believe
that sets us apart. The third place is that place
thats not work or home. Its the place our
customers come for refuge.Nancy Orsolini,
District Manager
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Experience Rebel Lifestyle!What we sell is
the ability for a 43-year-old accountant to dress
in black leather, ride through small towns and
have people be afraid of him.Harley exec,
quoted in Results-Based Leadership
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WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?
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Bob Lutz I see us as being in the art business.
Art, entertainment and mobile sculpture, which,
coincidentally, also happens to provide
transportation. Source NYT 10.19.01
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Its All About EXPERIENCES Trapper to
Wildlife Damage-control ProfessionalTrapper
lt20 per beaver pelt.WDCP 150/problem
beaver 750-1,000 for flood-control piping
so that beavers can stay.Source
WSJ/05.21.2002
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Ladder Position MeasureSolutions
Success(Experiences)Services
SatisfactionGoods Six-sigma
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7. It all adds up to THE BRAND.
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WHO ARE WE?
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Most companies tend to equate branding with the
companys marketing. Design a new marketing
campaign and, voilà, youre on course. They are
wrong. The task is much bigger. It is about
fulfilling our potential not about a new logo,
no matter how clever. WHAT IS MY MISSION IN
LIFE? WHAT DO I WANT TO CONVEY TO PEOPLE? HOW
DO I MAKE SURE THAT WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER THE
WORLD IS ACTUALLY UNIQUE? The brand has to give
of itself, the company has to give of itself, the
management has to give of itself. To put it
bluntly, it is a matter of whether or not you
want to be UNIQUE NOW.Jesper Kunde, A
Unique Moment
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WHATS OUR STORY?
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We are in the twilight of a society based on
data. As information and intelligence become the
domain of computers, society will place more
value on the one human ability that cannot be
automated emotion. Imagination, myth, ritual -
the language of emotion - will affect everything
from our purchasing decisions to how we work with
others. Companies will thrive on the basis of
their stories and myths. Companies will need to
understand that their products are less important
than their stories.Rolf Jensen, Copenhagen
Institute for Future Studies
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EXACTLY HOW ARE WE DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT?
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1st Law Mktg Physics OVERT BENEFIT (Focus 1 or
2 gt 3 or 4/One Great Thing. Source 1
Personal Passion)2ND Law REAL REASON TO
BELIEVE (Stand Deliver!)3RD Law DRAMATIC
DIFFERENCE Source Jump Start Your Business
Brain, Doug Hall
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EXACTLY HOW DO I PASSIONATELY CONVEY THAT
DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE TO THE CLIENT ?
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8. Boss Job One The Talent Obsession.
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Model 25/8/53 Sports Franchise GM
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From 1, 2 or youre out JW to Best
Talent in each industry segment to build best
proprietary intangibles EMSource Ed
Michaels, War for Talent
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We believe companies can increase their market
cap 50 percent in 3 years. Steve Macadam at
Georgia-Pacific changed 20 of his 40 box plant
managers to put more talented, higher paid
managers in charge. He increased profitability
from 25 million to 80 million in 2 years.Ed
Michaels, War for Talent
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Message Some people are better than other
people. Some people are a helluva lot better than
other people.
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Why focus on these late teens and
twenty-somethings? Because they are the first
young who are both in a position to change the
world, and are actually doing so. For the first
time in history, children are more comfortable,
knowledgeable and literate than their parents
about an innovation central to society. The
Internet has triggered the first industrial
revolution in history to be led by the
young.The Economist 12/2000
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The Cracked Ones Let in the LightOur business
needs a massive transfusion of talent, and
talent, I believe, is most likely to be found
among non-conformists, dissenters and
rebels.David Ogilvy
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MantraM3Talent Brand
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The Top 5 RevelationsBetter talent
wins.Talent management is my job as
leader.Talented leaders are looking for the
moon and stars.Over-deliver on peoples dreams
they are volunteers.Pump talent in at all
levels, from all conceivable sources, all the
time.Source Ed Michaels et al., The War for
Talent
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9. THINK WEIRD the HVA/High Value Added
Bedrock.
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THINK WEIRD The High Standard Deviation
Enterprise.
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Saviors-in-WaitingDisgruntled
CustomersOff-the-Scope CompetitorsRogue
EmployeesFringe SuppliersWayne Burkan, Wide
Angle Vision Beat the Competition by Focusing on
Fringe Competitors, Lost Customers, and Rogue
Employees
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CUSTOMERS Future-defining customers may account
for only 2 to 3 of your total, but they
represent a crucial window on the
future.Adrian Slywotzky, Mercer Consultants
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COMPETITORS The best swordsman in the world
doesnt need to fear the second best swordsman in
the world no, the person for him to be afraid of
is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a
sword in his hand before he doesnt do the thing
he ought to do, and so the expert isnt prepared
for him he does the thing he ought not to do and
often it catches the expert out and ends him on
the spot. Mark Twain
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Employees Are there enough weird people in the
lab these days?V. Chmn., pharmaceutical house,
to a lab director (06.01)
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Suppliers There is an ominous downside to
strategic supplier relationships. An SSR supplier
is not likely to function as any more than a
mirror to your organization. Fringe suppliers
that offer innovative business practices need not
apply. Wayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision Beat
the Competition by Focusing on Fringe
Competitors, Lost Customers, and Rogue Employees
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10. Leading in a Brawl with No Rules
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If things seem under control, youre just not
going fast enough.Mario Andretti
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Im not comfortable unless Im
uncomfortable.Jay Chiat
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If it works, its obsolete. Marshall McLuhan
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The Kotler Doctrine1965-1980
R.A.F.(Ready.Aim.Fire.)1980-1995
R.F.A.(Ready.Fire!Aim.)1995-????
F.F.F.(Fire!Fire!Fire!)
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If Microsoft is good at anything, its avoiding
the trap of worrying about criticism. Microsoft
fails constantly. Theyre eviscerated in public
for lousy products. Yet they persist, through
version after version, until they get something
good enough. Then they leverage the power theyve
gained in other markets to enforce their
standard.Seth Godin, Zooming
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Cortez!
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Leaders dump the ones who brung em Nokia, HP,
3M, PerkinElmer, Corning, etc.
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If you dont like change, youre going to like
irrelevance even less. General Eric Shinseki,
Chief of Staff, U. S. Army
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Characteristics of the Also ransMinimize
riskRespect the chain of commandSupport the
bossMake budgetFortune, article on Most
Admired Global Corporations
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The greatest dangerfor most of usis not that
our aim istoo highand we miss it,but that it
istoo lowand we reach it.Michelangelo
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Thank You!