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The Company's Most Urgent Task Is To Learn To Welcome, Beg For, Demand - Innovation From Everyone.

If Not Excellence, What? If Not Excellence Now, When?

Make An Extensive Table Of Project 'deliverables'. Label One Column 'as Requested'. Create Another Column Labeled 'could Be'. Make Each 'could Be' Wild And Woolly!

My Half-baked Reading Of History Is That We Continue To Go Through These Waves Of Entrepreneurial Explosion Followed By Merger Mania And Consolidation. Out Of That Come Big Sluggish Companies That Eventually Collapse Under The Weight Of What They've Created, And Are Killed Off By The Next Wave Of Entrepreneurs.

When You Choose A Managerial Path, You Are Choosing To Devote Your Life To People. Period.