The Visual Mba: Two Years of Business School Packed into One Priceless Book of Pure Awesomeness

The more you know and understand this person, the better your chances are of a successful negotiated outcome.

If you want to be happy in your job you need to hit the sweet spot. You need a balance of competence (really good at something), passion (need I say more?), and opportunity (there is a market need).

Current Ratio Liquidity: Your company’s ability to pay back short-term obligations. The higher the ratio, the higher the capability. Current Assets / Current Liabilities

Is what you are deciding on critical? Can it wait? Who is involved? What’s at stake?

purpose. Give them the freedom to be creative, to be good at what they do, and to have a purpose behind their work.

You are at dinner with your family and there is a dead dog on the center of the table, but no one talks about it. That is a dysfunctional family. Do you have a dysfunctional organization? What isn’t being talked about?

First, think outside the box. Then associate your thoughts with things you have observed or experienced. This is the essence of creativity. Always be filling your “card catalog” with experiences and knowledge. Then take those cards and put them together in different combinations.

Although it is hard to change people, nothing changes people faster than changing their environment. Their environment then shapes the culture.

Being incremental wins every time vs. trying to get everything right off the bat.