Quotes

The Enthusiastic Employee, Page 241

Purposes and principles are much more likely to be translated into practice if… top management [has] not only a long-term business view but [is] also as passionate about products and people as they are about profits.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Page 241

When measuring results against objectives, start by making sure the objectives are correct.

Management, Page 241

The managerial job must have specific objectives and a specific purpose and function. A manager must be able to make a contribution that can be identified. The manager must be accountable.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Page 241

Remember this rule: intuition cannot be trusted in the absence of stable regularities in the environment.

Switch, Page 241

…culture often is the linchpin of successful organizational change.

Average is Over, Page 241

Expensive government at the level of the state isn’t winning the competitive tests.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Page 241

CEOs should be evaluated against their company’s opportunity – not somebody else’s company.

Never Eat Alone, Page 241

There are no new stories, it has been said, only old stories told in new ways. To make your pitch sound fresh and original, find an innovative slant.

Management, Page 241

Managing is work. But it is not, by itself, full-time work… As a rule, the manager should be both a manager and an individual career professional.

Blink, Page 241

This is the gift of training and experience – the ability to extract an enormous amount of meaningful information from the very thinnest slice of experience.