OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.

The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.

Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.

Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.

The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.

I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.

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