Some quotes from the ten commandments for business failures

The ten commandments for business failures from Donald. R. Keough. He was former CEO of the CocaCola company.

• Real fault lies, as Shakespeare noted, on ourselves.
• He that is overcautious will accomplish little - Friedrich Von Schiller.
• Four out of five new business fail
• The world belongs to the discontented. 
• Of course, the way forward will always generate some failures. Failures are inevitable
• It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear - Dick Cavett.
• Think not those faithful who praise thy words and actions but those who kindly reprove thy faults - Socrates
• A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world - John le Carre
• Success is more permanent when you achieve it without destroying your principles.
• The distance between the two traits (nobility and fragility) is not that great. People can rise up to do extraordinary things and they can fall far and fast.
• It is better to know some of the questions than all the answers - James Thurber.
• There are many things in life more important than money and they all cost money - Fred Allen.
• To have success you have to have a high level of unadulterated desire to get up and go to work

Winning: Important quotes from Jack Welch.

Quotes from the great Jack Welch

I Don't know if it's good or bad, but the world generally favors people who are energetic and extroverted. That's also something you learn young, and it's reinforced in school, at church, at camp, and usually at home too.

Trust happens when leaders are transparent, candid, and keep their word. It's that simple. 

In bad times, leaders take responsibility for what's gone wrong. In good times, they generously pass around the praise... Remember, when you were made a leader you weren't given a crown, you were given a responsibility to bring out the best in others.

You've been made a leader because you've seen more and been right more times. Listen to your gut. It's telling you something.

All we were left with at the end was me thinking, "I knew it" and wanting to say, "I told you so." Both of those sentiments are worth nothing. You would assume that was obvious, but I've seen more leaders believe that second-guessing absolves them from responsibility when things go wrong. 

What leaders do:

1. Leaders relentlessly upgrade their team, using every encounter as an opportunity to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence.
2. Leaders make sure people not only see the vision, they live and breathe it.
3. Leaders get into everyone's skin, exuding positive energy and optimism.
4. Leaders establish trust with candor, transparency, and credit
5. Leaders have the courage to make unpopular decisions and gut calls.
6. Leaders probe and push with a curiosity that borders on skepticism, making sure their questions are answered with action.
7. Leaders inspire risk taking and learning by setting the example
8. Leaders celebrate.

People with integrity tell the truth, and they keep their word. They take responsibility for past actions, admit mistakes, and fix them. 

Winning is about results.

Leaders can't have an iota of fakeness. They have to know themselves -so that they can be straight with the world, energize followers and lead with the authority born of authenticity. 

The global business world today is going to know any leader off her horse more than once. She must know how to get back in the saddle again. 

I particularly liked the people who had had the wind knocked clear out of them but proved they could run even harder in the next race.

It goes without saying that no businessperson wants disasters to occur, but they will.

In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell... Strategy is an approximate course of action that you frequently revisit and redefine, according to shifting market conditions. 

Strategy, then, is simply finding the big aha and setting a broad direction, putting the right people behind it, and then executing with an unyielding emphasis on continual improvement.

You cannot be everything to everybody, no matter what the size of your business or how deep its pockets.

Getting the right strategy means you have to assume your competitors are damn good, or at the very least as good as you are, and that they are moving just as fast or faster. When it comes to peering into the future, you just can't be paranoid enough.

The first answer is luck. All careers, no matter how scripted they appear, are shaped by some element of pure chance. Sometimes a person just happens to be in the right place at the right time, and he meets someone - atan airport or a party, for instance - and a career door swings open. We've all heard stories like that.

My main point is, when going after your first job, live in your own skin and be comfortable there. Authenticity may be the best selling point you've got.

I know it is not easy to always be upbeat. Life doesn't always go your way... You can win without being upbeat - if every other star is aligned - but why would you want to try?

When setbacks come, and they will, ride them out with your head up.

In any business situation, seeing yourself as a victim is completely self-defeating.

    

Rebélate amigo

Atrévete a hacer algo diferente.

Quema tus apuntes. Insulta a tu mejor amigo. Envía flores a tu peor enemigo. Deja tirado a tu novia. No duermas por la noche, duérmete durante las clases. Ponte las gafas de sol por la noche. Tome tus apuntes en horizontal. Escriba con Tipp-ex. Súbete corriendo por las escaleras mecánicas en sentido contrario y bájate de un salto. Vete a las reuniones en pijamas. Acuéstate con corbata y traje. Sepulta tu mejor trabajo. Use los libros como papel higiénico. Escriban gilipolleces. No hables con la gente, ladrales.

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• Washington Post adivirtió hace unos años
  
  

  "la ambición de los economistas los ha llevado a crear complejas soluciones matemáticas para los problemas teóricos, que pese a su elegante formulación tienen poca o ninguna importancia para los problemas sociales."

• Los hombres grandes son sencillos, y los mediocres ampulosos. Por la misma razón que los cobardes son bravucones y los valientes no.
• La vida es una telaraña. Las líneas se cruzan en ángulos raros. El tener éxito, no depende de cómo de buenos son sus planes, sobre todo esos palnes estratégicos a cinco años que enseñan las escuelas de negocios. El éxito depende de cómo reacciona ante las oportuinidades inesperados.
• Tienes que verte a tí mismo como un producto. Una realidad que sorporende a muchos es que el éxito no proviene del interior de uno mismo. El éxito es algo que otros nos dan.
• El éxito es cuestión de encontrar un tren al que subirse.
• No se puede predecir el futuro y nunca hay que intentar adivinarlo. Hoy es hoy. Mañana será mañana.