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A great idea is not enough.
Change demands new learning.
Power is the ability to get things done
Power is the ability to get things done.
No" is always an easier stand than "Yes.
Everything looks like a failure in the middle.
The goal of winning is not losing two times in a row.
Mindless habitual behavior is the enemy of innovation.
You've no future unless you add value, create projects.
It's almost impossible to break a losing streak on your own.
The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.
To stay ahead, you must have your next idea waiting in the wings.
It is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.
Powerlessness corrupts: absolute powerlessness corrupts absolutely.
Thinkers, makers and traders are the DNA of the world class company
Change is a threat when done to me, but an opportunity when done by me.
Leadership is one of the most enduring, universal human responsibilities.
Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.
Too many people let others stand in their way and don't go back for one more try.
Winning becomes easier over time as the cornerstones of confidence become habits.
Passion for a goal doesn't guarantee success, but without it, you can't even begin.
Innovative organizations provide the freedom to act which arouses the desire to act.
You can always buy something in English, you can't always sell something in English.
Ambivalence about family responsibilities has a long history in the corporate world.
A self-reinforcing upward spiral: performance stimulating pride stimulating performance.
Our future will be shaped by the assumptions we make about who we are and what we can be.
Confidence is the bridge connecting expectations and performance, investment and results.
The creative process for me doesn't work as well without an image of an audience in mind.
I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences.
My creative process involves that old saying: It's 90% perspiration and only 10% inspiration.
One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.
Friendly people are caring people, eager to provide encouragement and support when needed most.
The importance of discretion increases with closeness to the top of a hierarchical organization.
Companies used to be able to function with autocratic bosses. We don't live in that world anymore.
Power stems from 'rainmaking,' as law firms put it: the ability to bring resources into the company.
Cheap labor is not going to be the way we compete in the United States. It's going to be brain power.
Confidence is contagious, but so is failure. Even the Yankees will lose if you persuade them that they will.
A basic truth of management - if not of life - is that nearly everything looks like a failure in the middle.
Change is like putting lipstick on a bulldog. The bulldog's appearance hasn't improved, but now it's really angry.
Confidence makes you willing to try harder and attracts the kind of support from others that makes "winning" possible.
Confidence is the sweet spot between arrogance and despair-consisting of positive expectations for favorable outcomes.
Confidence isn't optimism or pessimism, and it's not a character attribute. It's the expectation of a positive outcome.
A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more.
The most radical thing we can do is connect people to one another. That starts conversations toward a vision for change.
If world problems feel too big to tackle, think small. Step by step. Small wins build confidence, lead the way to change.
It takes courage to speak up against complacency and injustice while others remain silent. But that's what leadership is.
In the most innovative companies there is a significantly higher volume of thank yous than in companies of low innovation.
Creativity does not derive from order but from the attempt to impose order where it does not exist, to make new connections.
Corporate men and women, once divided by striking differences in opportunity for career growth, have come to share career chaos.
The boomers' biggest impact will be on eliminating the term 'retirement' and inventing a new stage of life... the new career arc.