Seven Strategies to Become A Fast Organization

Posted on March 17th, 2008 in Leading By Example, Uncategorized by speedreading

Seven Strategies to Become A Fast Organization
1.   Follow the Customer

“The customer is not always right. But the customer is always the judge.”      (Nordstrom Training Manual)
Value =   the expectation  ÷  the actual delivery

2.   Diversity of Thinking
“The problem is never how to get innovative thoughts in your mind, but how to get the old ones out.”      (Tom Peters)

3.   Don’t Hesitate to Collaborate

“Lots of times you have to join in a parade that you’re really not interested in, to get to where you are going.”     (George Morley)

4.   Dare to be Different

“You do not merely want to be considered the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.”     (Jerry Garcia)

5.   The Only Constant is Change

“To improve is to change. To be perfect is to change often.”      (Winston Churchill)

6.   Be Responsive to be Responsible

“You can’t fertilize a field by fartin’ through the fence.”     (Will Rogers)

7.    It Takes Talent to Win

“Most people have lent ability. They’re waiting for permission to tap into resources they’ve kept hidden.”      (Walt Disney)

Seven Habits of Powerful Leaders

Posted on March 17th, 2008 in Leading By Example by speedreading

Seven Habits of Powerful Leaders
1.  Leading is Not Managing

“You manage things, but you lead people.”     (Grace Hooper, Adm. U.S. Navy)

  Have an open dialog  =  communicate  =  learn from each other

2.  Leaders Have Courage

“Being on the tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting.”   (Karl Wallenda, Tightrope Walker)

  Take risks! Business is not always going to be smooth – it has ups and downs.

3.  Leaders Have a Sense of Purpose

“It’s not where the puck is that counts. It’s where the puck will be.”     (Wayne Gretzky)

  Position yourself to score and win!
  What needs to change?

4.  Leaders are Consistent

“Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.”      (Henry Kissinger)

  Don’t stop  -  continue  -  press forward!

5.  Leaders Concentrate on BIG Things

“Incrementalism is innovation worst enemy.”     (Nicholas Negraponte, “Being Digital”)

  Have courage!
  Growing pains come with change.

6.  Leaders are Made – Not Born

“Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but from playing a poor hand well.”     (Denis Waitley)

  We all have ups and downs – how you react is what is important!

  Old Chinese Saying =  “Fall down 8 times, get up 9.”

7.  Leaders Know how to Laugh

“Don’t take life too seriously, because I guarantee you won’t get out of it alive.”  

  Don’t let the little things get you down – keep proper perspective!