Ideas for better business
solutions
In order to help you develop your own
approaches to business solutions, we suggest these ideas from some
of our favourite authors for your
inspiration.
Tom Peters:
"There is no more important trait among
excellent companies than an action orientation. ... if you've got
a major problem, bring the right people together and expect them
to solve it. They do, somehow, have the time."
"Excellent companies are a vast network of
informal, open communications. (forget the MBA - Masters in
Business Administration - and remember the MBWA - Management By
Walking Around)"
from "In Search of
EXCELLENCE", 1982.
"A well-handled problem usually breeds more
customer loyalty than you had before the negative incident"
"Measure! And reward on the basis of the
measures."
from "Thriving on Chaos",
1987.
Harvey Mackay:
"A goal is a dream with a deadline. Write it
down"
"Dig your well before you're thirsty"
"You'll always get the good news; It's how
quickly you get the bad news that really counts."
from "SWIM WITH THE SHARKS
Without Being Eaten Alive", 1988.
"Do what you love, love what you do and
deliver more than you promise."
"You're a lot better off being scared than
being bored."
from "BEWARE THE NAKED MAN
WHO OFFERS YOU HIS SHIRT", 1990.
Seth Godin:
"In advertising... persistence is the secret
to success"
"In choosing partners remember: Ringo was
the luckiest Beatle... a mediocre drummer riding on the backs of
three musical geniuses."
from "The Bootstrapper's
Bible", 2004.
Jim Collins & Jerry Porras:
"Visionary companies almost religiously
preserve their core ideology. Yet, they display a powerful drive
for progress that enables them to adapt and change without
compromising their cherished core ideals."
"Good enough never is. For these companies
the critical question is - How can we do better tomorrow than we
did today?"
from "Built to Last", 1994.
Marcus Buckingham & Curt Coffman:
"the one insight that we heard echoed by
tens of thousands of great managers:
People don't change that much. Don't waste
time trying to put in what was left out. Try to draw out what was
left in. That is hard enough."
from "First, Break all the
Rules", 1999.
Stephen Covey:
"Begin with the end in mind."
"Seek first to understand,... then to be
understood."
from "The 7 Habits of Highly
Effective People", 1989.
Anthony Robins:
"It is the small decisions you and I make
every day that create our destinies."
"It is not events that shape my life and
determine how I feel or act, it's the way I interpret and evaluate
my life experiences."
from "Awaken the Giant
Within", 1991.
Benjamin Franklin:
"Franklin's Third Rule of Management - Seek
first to manage yourself, then to manage others."
from "Ben Franklin's 12 Rules
of Management" by Blaine McCormick, 2000.
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