The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s-now it’s do or die.

Leaders do stuff that matters.

But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.

Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today