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The world is full of bankrupt companies with world-class cultures. Culture does not make a company.
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179 |
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To be a world-class company, you need world-class effort. If somebody isn’t giving it to you, they must be checked.
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249 |
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There are two kinds of cultures in this world: cultures where what you do matters and cultures where all that matters is who you are. You can be the former or you can suck.
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255 |
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…your loyalty must go to your employees – the people who report to your executives… You own them a world-class management team. That’s the priority.
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256 |
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The markets of the developed world have been dominated by the values, habits, and preferences of the young population.
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047 |
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…what underlies the current malaise of so many large and successful organizations worldwide is that their theory of business no longer works.
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086 |
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Strategy has to be based on information about markets, customers, and noncustomers; about technology in one’s own industry and others; about worldwide finance; and about the changing world economy. For that is where the results are.
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347 |
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Though the great majority of businesses will continue to operate only locally or regionally, they all face, at least potentially, global competition from places they have never even heard of before.
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348 |
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…by having a foot in so many different worlds, [connectors] have the effect of bringing them all together.
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051 |
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Good design can change the world. (And so, alas, can bad design.)
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081 |
