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Planning

Improvisation will only bring you as far as the next crisis, and is never a substitute for thinking several steps ahead and planning to the end.

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#CorporateCulture

Is your organization a performance-culture or an excuse-culture?

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The Skills Transfer Gap

Few employees seem to take what they learn in the classroom and apply it to their jobs - and the further removed the locus of learning is from the locus of application, the larger this gap becomes.

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Different vs. Better

When you can't win by being better, you can win by being different. 

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#Empowerment

Empowerment in its most simple form is sharing decision-making authority with others. 

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Starting Out Realities

When you're just starting out, we can be sure of a few fundamental realities: 1) You're not nearly as good or as important as you think you are; 2) You have an attitude that needs to be readjusted; 3) Most of what you think you know or most of what you learned in books or in school is out of date or wrong.

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#PersonalDevelopment

It's not about beating the other guy.  It's not about having more than others.  It's about being what you are, and being as good as possible at it, without succumbing to all the things that draw you away from it.  It's about going where you set out to go.  About accomplishing the most that you're capable of in what you choose.  That's it.  No more and no less.

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Urgent vs. Important

Urgent and important are not the same.  Set your priorities.  Think big picture.  Then trust the people beneath you to do the jobs they were hired to do.

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#Leadership

Great leaders are far more skilled in the art of questioning than the art of answering.

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#Leadership

The degree to which leaders are seen as credible is the degree to which potential followers will allow themselves to be influenced.  

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