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Execution is the job of the business leader.
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Jobs
Execution
Leader
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If you don't have the best people you hurt everyone.
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Hurt
Ifs
People
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At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
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People
Strategy
The End Of The Day
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Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
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Doe
Programming
Simplicity
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I'm just going to keep going and goind and going until I can't go anymore.
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I Can
Keep Going
Tenacity
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How people talk to each other absolutely determines how well the organization will function.
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Function
Organization
People
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Execution is the ability to mesh strategy with reality, align people with goals, and achieve the promised results.
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Goal
People
Reality
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Self-awareness gives you the capacity to learn from your mistakes as well as your successes. It enables you to keep growing.
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Giving
Mistake
Self
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Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.
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Accountability
Execution
Systematic
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I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies.
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Relationship
Business
People
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People tend to look at their businesses from the inside out - that is, they get so focused on making and selling their products that they lose awareness of the needs and buying behaviors of their customers.
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Leadership
Needs
People
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I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high level strategy, on intellectualizing and philosophizing, and not enough on implementation. People would agree on a project or initiative, and then nothing would come of it.
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If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.
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Plain Language
Simplicity
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In its most fundamental sense, execution is a systematic way of exposing reality and acting on it. Most companies don't face reality very well. ... Realism is the heart of execution, but many organizations are full of people who are trying to avoid or shade reality. Why? It makes life uncomfortable.
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Organization
Reality
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