- Despite all the apparent extra features your competitor's product possesses, you can still (easily) win the sale by the way you sell.
- Planning meetings spend far too long on setting milestones and not enough time on checking that full 100% buy-in has been achieved.
- Reading a well-crafted crime novel can give you more clues to how to run a great campaign than many best-selling marketing books.
- All organisations are still looking for excellent people. The real challenge is letting them know you are one of those rare breed.
- A long 'to do' list is efficient. A prioritised-against your objectives-'to do' list is effective.
- A high performance team is not one which has gone white-water rafting together (although that can be fun) nor has an amazing vision statement (although that might help). It's actually one which is totally loyal to each other. Whatever.
- Spending too much time in the canteen talking about what is going wrong in the company that you can't change anyway is like bad therapy: it creates issues which were never really there.
- Don't take feed-back from those who are not qualified to give it to you.
- So Nature or Nurture? See what the sons of Paul Simon, Bob Dylan and (any week now) James McCartney have produced.
- Days exist to give us endless fresh starts.
- Weeks exist to give us time to practise.
- Months exist to give us an opportunity to change the world for the better.