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rewards candor ifs
If you reward candor, you'll get it.
may emotion grids
The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.
children kindness college
Some think that it is cruel or brutal to remove the bottom 10 percent of our people. It isn't. It's just the opposite. What I think is brutal and "false kindness" is keeping people around who aren't going to grow and prosper. There's no cruelty like waiting and telling people late into their careers that they don't belong - just when the options are limited and they're putting their children through college or paying off big mortgages.
europe asia germany
If you're not in Germany, you're not in Europe. And if you're not in Asia, you're nowhere.
jobs ideas light
My job is to find great ideas, exaggerate them, and spread them like hell around the business with the speed of light...And to put resources in to support them. Keep finding ideas. That's the job of just about all of our CEOs.
years focus innovation
What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.
thoughtful fringe policy
One of the things about leadership is that you cannot be a moderate, balanced, thoughtful, careful articulator of policy. You've got to be on the lunatic fringe.
believe simple reality
You can't believe how hard it is for people to be simple, how much they fear being simple. They worry that if they're simple, people will think they're simpleminded. In reality, of course, it's just the reverse. Clear, tough-minded people are the most simple.
leader quality cost
Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.
thinking ideas working-it
...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.
organization desire fundamentals
Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere; and to rapidly convert this learning into action is its ultimate competitive advantage.
integrity ends
In the end, your integrity is all you've got.
people leader would-be
You talk about seeing around corners as an element of success. That's what differentiates the good leader. Not many people have it. Not many people can predict that corner. That would be a characteristic of great leaders.
team always-trying innovation
Innovation is not a big breakthrough invention every time. Innovation is a constant thing. But if you don't have an innovative company [team], coming to work everyday to find a better way, you don't have a company[team]. You're getting ready to die on the vine. You're always looking for the next innovation, the next niche, the next product improvement, the next service improvement. But always trying to get better.