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…learning to reduce the distractions that take your mind out of the game can make you a step quicker than your competitor, make you more focused, and help you to use your energies more productively.
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113 |
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Winning today requires surpassing expectations because great companies don’t just fulfill contracts; they exceed them. They outbehave the competition.
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245 |
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An inwardly focused organization inevitably misses new opportunities and hazards coming from competitors, customers, or changes in the regulatory environment.
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65 |
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The only we can guarantee job security, keep raises higher than inflation… is if we move faster, smarter, and better than the competition.
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113 |
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When companies are failing to grow organically, CEOs give up, go back to their offices, acquire their competitors and cut prices.
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9 |
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…a competitor needs to pay an employee over 20% more to get them to switch jobs if that employee is engaged. If an employee is disengaged, they will leave for almost any increase in salary.
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87 |
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Organizations that aren’t agile and that don’t have the capacity to adapt quickly will be overcome by their competitors – or put out of business.
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160 |
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…this blend of constant dissatisfaction, unquenchable desires, and overbearing competitiveness can damage your mental health.
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110 |
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…organizations that drive in compassion and drive out fear attract superior talent, have lower turnover costs, share ideas more freely, have less dysfunctional internal competition, and trump the external competition.
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172 |
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…create a plan to outlast the competition and go the distance.
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152 |
