Management Quotes

My experience…taught me the three critical drivers of professional success, the three elemental particles of love in business. They are knowledge, networks, and compassion. To be an impact player in business, you simply have to know more than most other people know. That means taking the power of ideas seriously, reading books voraciously, and developing a system of organizing what you’ve learned. But all of your knowledge won’t amount to much if you don’t have a network of people to share it with — and enough compassion for the people in that network to understand that your success is a direct result of their success.
— Tim Sanders

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Be careful not to worship cool. It’s a false god.

Given where the world is going, I recommend that companies be more concerned with their karma than with being cool.
— Scott Bedbury

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Leaders pay a lot of lip service to the notion of rewarding failure, but few organizations hold failed effort on the same level with success. Often, they have a forgive-and-forget policy. Forgiveness is crucial, but it’s not enough. In order to learn from mistakes, it’s even more important to forgive and remember. The only kind of failure that deserves to be punished is inaction.
— Robert Sutton

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The mantra that we have all lived with for the past five years is, “Innovate or die!” But it’s just as accurate to say, “Innovate and die.” All the excitement about all things new obscured the fact that most new ideas are bad and most old ideas are good. It’s a Darwinian principle: The death rate of new products and companies is dramatically higher than that of old ones. Dozens of new cereals fail every year, while Cheerios and Wheaties persist. Even wildly popular new products such as Beanie Babies fade, while Play-Doh remains on the scene. Still, the world does change, new technologies are developed, business models do mutate, and customer demands do migrate. So the question becomes, Which horn would you rather be gored by? That’s the innovator’s dilemma. You can’t choose between innovative work and routine work. That’s like asking, What’s more important: your heart or your brain?
— Robert Sutton

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A company’s brand has almost nothing to do with its products or services anymore. Branding is really a function of the dialogue between a company and its constituents. The more meaningful that dialogue, the stronger the brand.
— Larry Weber

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The first time you say something, it’s heard, the second time, it’s recognized, and the third time, it’s learned.
— William H. Rastetter

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We got it right when we said that we were in search of excellence. Not competitive advantage. Not economic growth. Not market dominance or strategic differentiation. Not maximized shareholder value. Excellence…Search of Excellence — even the title — is a reminder that business isn’t dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers.
— Tom Peters

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Nearly 100% of innovation — from business to politics — is inspired not by “market analysis” but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.
— Tom Peters

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anyone who’s idiot enough to read a business book and follow the words exactly to the letter is just that — an idiot.
— Tom Peters

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In McKinsey’s world, all of life is one of two things: strategy or organization.
— Tom Peters

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