Management Quotes

One important characteristic of the next big thing is that it must have the power to surprise at the time it starts to become big, but surprise only a little bit.It’s not whether you can see it coming; it’s whether your neighbour doesn’t, but only by a little bit. Your neighbour must also share the perception that the next big thing has the power to disrupt the current order. The next big thing is about perception more than reality.
— Michael Mainelli

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Donors should recognize that gifts to effective organizations that put their money to work quickly will achieve far better results than those with strings attached. Donors who understand this are also likely to encourage endowed nonprofits to speed up disbursements. At present, many givers ask how their contributions will be put to work, but few ask when they will begin generating benefits for society.
— Paul J. Jansen and David M. Katz

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Marketers are in a slow, denial-laden shift from buying content-attached audiences, like those of TV shows, to buying intent-attached audiences, like those of search engines and personal video recorders.
— John Battelle

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You are searching for the magic key that will unlock the door to the source of power; and yet you have the key in your own hands, and you may use it the moment you learn to control your thoughts.
— Napoleon Hill

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You spend the first third of your life learning, the second third earning, and the final third giving back. And if there’s anything left over, well, I guess we didn’t plan well.
— Jim Barksdale

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There is a form of eminence that does not depend on fate; it is an air that sets us apart and seems to portend great things; it is the value that we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality that wins us the deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.
— La Rochefoucauld

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Alan Kay’s famous aphorism is that perspective is worth 80 IQ points. An innovative insight is not the product of an individual’s brilliance. It’s not as if innovators’ heads are wired in different ways. Innovation typically comes from looking at the world through a slightly different lens.
— Gary Hamel

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Orthodoxy is the enemy of renewal. The future gets created by heretics. And every organization must continuously work to redefine itself in ways that ensure that it does not get held hostage to its own moribund business model.
— Gary Hamel

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Designed by and for the smart, the Internet appears to be a neutral space, but its three organizing principles — egalitarianism, elitism, and efficiency — are organized in such a way that the smart get even smarter.
— Len Ellis

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Intelligence becomes an asset when some useful order is created out of free flowing brain power—that is, when it is given coherent form (a mailing list, a database, an agenda for a meeting, a description of process); when it is captured in a way that allows it to be described, shared and exploited; and when it can be deployed to do something that could not be done if it remained scattered around like coins in a gutter.…An intellectual asset is a formally codified piece of knowledge.
— Thomas A. Stewart

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