- It takes the sustained effort of many people to create a positive corporate culture. It takes a few people no time at all to ruin it.
- When someone starts a sentence with “We benchmarked our performance against …” it means they screwed up, and are now covering their asses.
- Trying to build consensus where none is possible is not leadership. Making a decision respected by those who disagree is.
- People who do the least while in power are the most critical of their leaders while out of power.
- Thinking “out of the box” doesn’t make you clever. Having more tools in your box does.
- Many of the best business ideas seem obvious, like opening a bar across the street from a Baptist college.
- Lawyers generally abhor qualifying adverbs, while economists can rarely write a sentence without at least two of them.
- You can’t just tell people that you value them, you have to show them. You can’t just show people that you value them, you have to tell them.
- It takes less effort to act ethically than to create the pretense of acting ethically. Yet, most prefer the latter to the former.
- People read Top Ten lists. Even if you have only nine things to say, stretch it to ten.
#8 is so true… especially for small businesses…
#10 is just necessary.