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If You're Looking For A Book That Will Spike In Sales And Then Go Away And Then Spike Again When It Comes Out In Paperback, Your Normal Model, I Definitely Won't Give You That.

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If You're Looking For A Book That Will Spike In Sales And Then Go Away And Then Spike Again When It Comes Out In Paperback, Your Normal Model, I Definitely Won't Give You That.

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Willing To Learn

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If Our Parents Fixed Everything For Us And Did Not Allow Us To Do Anything On Our Own, Or Intervened Every Single Time, We Would All Grow Up To Be Completely Dependent.

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It's Always The Organizations That Are Resource Constrained That Come Up With The Good Ideas To Win.

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Corporate Culture Matters. How Management Chooses To Treat Its People Impacts Everything - For Better Or For Worse.

It Is Like When A Player Has A Slump, We Do Not Trade Them, We Coach Them. It Is The Same With Our Employees. The Best Leaders Come To The Aid Of Their People, Whose Performance Is Down. Not Come Down Harder On Them.

The Irony Is That The Best Thing We Can Do Is, Well One Option, Is To Quit Job We Don't Like. You Don't Always Have To Quit, And Quite Frankly, Option Two Is To Try To Help Others Solve The Problem That You Are Struggling With.

Trust Is Maintained When Values And Beliefs Are Actively Managed. If Companies Do Not Actively Work To Keep Clarity, Discipline And Consistency In Balance, Then Trust Starts To Break Down.

A Five Minute Call Replaces The Time It Takes To Read And Reply To The Original Email And Read And Reply To Their Reply... Or Replies. And I No Longer Spend 20+ Minutes Crafting The Perfect Email - No Need To.

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Doing The Right Thing

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