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Customer needs determine a business’s competencies, not its executives’ image of what the company is in business to do.
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134 |
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…if a company is to grow, innovation must happen. It is too important to leave to chance.
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176 |
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A hallmark of a great company is that everyone knows the reason for their company’s existence.
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211 |
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The genesis of great companies is answering simple questions that change the world, not the desire to become rich.
|
007 |
 |
Successful companies are usually started, and become successful, with the contributions of at least two souls.
|
009 |
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Today brands are built on what people are saying about them on social media – not on what companies are saying about themselves.
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041 |
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The reality is that starting something within an existing company requires adopting new patterns of behavior – essentially, rebooting your brain.
|
063 |
 |
The odds that you don’t need oversight because you know what you’re doing and it’s ‘your’ company are zero.
|
082 |
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How much your company is worth is more important than what percentage you own.
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128 |
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The higher you go in many big companies, the thinner the oxygen; and the thinner the oxygen, the more difficult it is to support intelligent life.
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245 |
