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Predicting whether an executive can scale corrupts your ability to manage, is unfair, and doesn’t work.
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195 |
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Generally, someone doesn’t become a CEO unless she has a high sense of purpose and cares deeply about the work she does.
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201 |
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Smart people do not want to work for people who do not have their interests in mind and in heart.
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220 |
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High-quality company cultures get their cue from data networking routing protocols: Bad news travels and good news travels slowly.
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234 |
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In good companies, the story and the strategy are the same thing. As a result, the proper output of all the strategic work is the story.
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236 |
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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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The management function, the work of management, its tasks and its dimensions are universal and do not vary from country to country.
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011 |
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…if work and worker are grossly mismanaged, there will be no economic performance, no matter how good the chief executive may be in managing the business.
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030 |
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Making the business of tomorrow cannot be a flash of genius. It requires systematic analysis and hard, rigorous work today – and that means by people in today’s business and operating within it.
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032 |
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The new reality is that knowledge is the key resource in society and knowledge workers are the dominant group in the workforce.
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037 |
