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Without systematic and purposeful abandonment, an organization will be overtaken by events. It will squander its best resources on things it should enver have been doing or should no longer do.
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092 |
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Innovation can be defined as the task of endowing human and material resources with new and greater wealth-producing capacity.
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100 |
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Defining the purpose and mission of the business is difficult, painful, and risky. But it alone enables a business to set objectives, to develop strategies, to concentrate its resources, and to go to work.
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104 |
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All economic activity… requires three kinds of resources: land, that is products of nature; labor, that is, human resources; and capital, that is, the means to invest in tomorrow.
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109 |
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The resources that should be invested in making the future happen should be small, but they must be of the best. Otherwise nothing happens.
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120 |
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Capital… is the one key resource of the organization, and it is by no means the scarcest one. The scarcest resources in any organization are performing people.
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347 |
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…it’s actually in turning outward to harness resources with and for others that we discover – and develop – our hidden potential.
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131 |
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Competing priorities, limited resources, and corporate inertia can quickly swallow up even the once-highest-performing teams.
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269 |
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Whatever your motivation – attention is the link between your goal and the resources you bring to it.
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176 |
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On our path to achieving a goal we inevitably encounter obstacles. Some of the more familiar ones, aside from other people, are sacrifices of time, money, power, love, resources, and inner strength.
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018 |
