Occupation: Author Birth: November 19, 1935
All of management is about self-confidence.
Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence..
The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence..
One of the jobs of a manager is to instill confidence, pump confidence into your people. And when you've got somebody who's raring to go and you can ….
Globalization has changed us into a company that searches the world, not just to sell or to source, but to find intellectual capital - the world's be….
You can't grow long-term if you can't eat short-term. Anybody can manage short. Anybody can manage long. Balancing those two things is what managemen….
Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be..
I guarantee you it will not be anyone from the outside..
An overburdened, overstretched executive is the best executive, because he or she doesn't have the time to meddle, to deal in trivia, to bother peopl….
This shows you are never too old to get surprised..
The essence of competitiveness is liberated when we make people believe that what they think and do is important - and then get out of their way whil….
The idea flow from the human spirit is absolutely unlimited. All you have to do is tap into that well. I don't like to use the word efficiency. It's ….
Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business..
In every company, differentiation is never more important than it is in times of trouble, and that's the time when everyone tends to go to the well a….
In order to lead a country or a company, you've got to get everybody on the same page and you've got to be able to have a vision of where you're goin….
If we get the right people in the right job we've won the game..
It is better to act too quickly than it is to wait too long..
Getting every employee's mind into the game is a huge part of what a CEO job is all about. Taking everyone's best ideas and transferring them to othe….
Hierarchy is an organization with its face toward the CEO and its ass toward the customer..
If you want risk taking, set an example yourself and reward and praise those that do..
Stretch targets energize. We have found that by reaching for what appears to be the impossible, we often actually do the impossible; and even when w….