I Was Glad I Liked Chemistry.

I Have Been Quoted Saying That, In The Future, All Companies Will Be Internet Companies. I Still Believe That. More Than Ever, Really

Accept That No Matter Where You Go To Work, You Are Not An Employee You Are A Business With One Employee, You. Nobody Owes You A Career. You Own It, As A Sole Proprietor.

There's A Tendency At The Senior And Middle-manager Level To Be Too Big-picturish And Too Superficial. There Is A Phrase, "the Devil Is In The Details." One Can Formulate Brilliant Global Strategies Whose Executability Is Zero. It's Only Through Familiarity With Details - The Capability Of The Individuals Who Have To Execute, The Marketplace, The Timing - That A Good Strategy Emerges. I Like To Work From Details To Big Pictures.

There Is At Least One Point In The History Of Any Company When You Have To Change Dramatically To Rise To The Next Level Of Performance. Miss That Moment - And You Start To Decline.

In The First Round Of Work Simplification...you Can Reasonably Expect A 30 To 50 Percent Reduction...to Implement The Actual Simplification, You Must Question Why Each Step Is Performed. Typically, You Will Find That Many Steps Exist In Your Work Flow For No Good Reason. Often They Are There By Tradition Or Because Formal Procedure Ordains It, And Nothing Practical Ordains It.