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You may hate gravity, but gravity doesn't care.
There needs to be conviction and action behind rules.
You can't find returns in investments you haven't made.
If you take away religion, you can't hire enough police.
Decide what you stand for. And then stand for it all the time.
Management is the most noble of professions if it's practiced well.
Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.
Disruptive innovations create jobs, efficiency innovations destroy them.
How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?
Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.
It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.
Children build self-esteem by doing things that are hard and learning what works.
What you need is a fundamental humility - the belief that you can learn from anyone.
Investing in our people is going to be costly and scarce - we need to start doing that!
I have healed the sick by the power of the God. I have spoken with the gift of tongues.
There are direct paths to a successful career. But there are plenty of indirect paths, too.
Businesses want to think in terms of categories. Consumers want us to think in terms of their needs.
The best strategy is a balance between having a deliberate one, and a flexible, or emergent strategy.
...it's easier to hold to your principles 100% of the time than it is to hold to them 98% of the time.
Motivation is the catalyzing ingredient for every successful innovation. The same is true for learning.
Disruption is, at its core, a really powerful idea, but everyone hijacks the idea to do whatever they want now.
Steve Jobs and Apple taught us that profit is not the ultimate goal, but rather a consequence of something greater.
Innovation simply isn't as unpredictable as many people think. There isn't a cookbook yet, but we're getting there.
If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.
Lets take the best of our ideas from Global Drucker Forum, and the best of our language, and then focus and clarify.
An innovation will get traction only if it helps people get something that they're already doing in their lives done better.
Its actually really important that you succeed at what youre succeeding at, but that isnt going to be the measure of your life.
Justification for infidelity and dishonesty in all their manifestations lies in the marginal cost economics of “just this once.
I've concluded that the metric by which God will assess my life isn't dollars but the individual people whose lives I've touched.
Intimate, loving, and enduring relationships with our family and close friends will be among the sources of the deepest joy in our lives.
Don't worry about the level of individual prominence you have achieved; worry about the individuals you have helped become better people.
In a large successful company where your power base as CEO isn't all that secure, it's hard for a CEO to pursue a truly disruptive strategy.
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
Watching how customers actually use a product provides much more reliable information than can be gleaned from a verbal interview or a focus group.
If you study the root causes of business disasters, over and over you'll find this predisposition toward endeavors that offer immediate gratification.
There's usually some process by which a potentially great idea gets prostituted into something lacklustre, or by which the wrong idea gets put forward.
Christine and I haven't raised our children. A whole community of selfless Christians has contributed to helping them become faithful, competent adults.
Think about the metric by which your life will be judged, and make a resolution to live every day so that in the end, your life will be judged a success.
The path I am trying so hard to follow is in fact the one that God my Father and His Son Jesus Christ want me to pursue. It has brought me deep happiness.
One quarter of Medicare beneficiaries have five or more chronic conditions, sees an average of 13 physicians each year, and fills 50 prescriptions per year.
Almost always great new ideas don't emerge from within a single person or function, but at the intersection of functions or people that have never met before.
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth.
This is one of the innovator’s dilemmas: Blindly following the maxim that good managers should keep close to their customers can sometimes be a fatal mistake.
The answer is the disruptive innovator, an outsider, who creates a product or service for the non-existing consumer in a non-existing market for almost no profit.
Because we employ no professional preachers, it means that every sermon or lesson in church is given by a regular member - women and men, children and grandparents.
If the technology is disruptive, on the other hand, the odds are that at the end of the transition, the leaders will have been toppled and new companies will be on top.
Ultimately, when you come up with a classification scheme that is collectively exhaustive and mutually exclusive, then the theory can become what Kuhn called a paradigm.
In 15 years from now half of US universities may be in bankruptcy ... in the end I'm excited to see that happen. So pray for Harvard Business School if you wouldn't mind.
Because if the decisions you make about where you invest your blood, sweat, and tears are not consistent with the person you aspire to be, you’ll never become that person.
If you just look at the data, you are led to believe that things are getting better, rather than worse. That's why the fall is really precipitous, once you hit the ceiling.