Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1935
Business is a game, and as with all games, the team that puts the best people on the field and gets them playing together wins. It's that simple..
Control your destiny or somebody will..
A company has only so much money and managerial time. Winning leaders invest where the payback is the highest. They cut their losses everywhere else..
Most organizations fail in driving change..
The secret of success is changing the way you think..
As a leader, your job is to energize people around the mission and vision you've articulated..
Our behavior is driven by a fundamental core belief: the desire, and the ability, of an organization to continuously learn from any source, anywhere;….
No company, small or large, can win over the long run without energized employees who believe in the mission and understand how to achieve it..
Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. ….
Trust is enormously powerful in a corporation. People won't do their best unless they believe they'll be treated fairly. The only way I know how to c….
I believe social responsibility begins with a strong, competitive company. Only a healthy enterprise can improve and enrich the lives of people and t….
Shareholder value is the result of you doing a great job, watching your share price go up, your shareholders win, and dividends increasing. What happ….
A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy i….
If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for pe….
When employees underperform, a leader tells them so..
If you're a leader and you're the smartest guy in the world - in the room, you've got real problems..
Simple messages travel faster, simpler designs reach the market faster and the elimination of clutter allows faster decision making..
Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders..
When you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given the responsibility to bring out the best in others..
So every time you think about your work-life balance issue, remember what your boss is thinking about - and that's winning. Your needs may get heard ….
Take lack of candor. ... I'm not talking about boldface lying, but a tendency to withhold information. That behavior is far more common, and it frust….