business

The house you built can cave you in if you didn't do it right.

I have always believed that a trademark is the life of an enterprise and that it must be protected boldly. A trademark and a company name arenot just clever gimmicks-they carry responsibility and guarantee the quality of the product. If someone tries to get a free ride on the reputation and the ability of another who has worked to build up public trust, it is nothing short of thievery. We were not flattered by this theft of our name.

Life is not enjoyed by being busy over everything in general, but being passionate about one thing in particular. Always focus on that one thing; dream it and live it!

Pool is a game of thinking, strategy and accuracy - just like in business.

Forget "six degrees of separation" today it's "six degrees of CONNECTION.

As more women lean in to their careers, more men need to lean in to their families. We need to encourage men to be more ambitious in their homes.

You can win in business by playing checkers until someone sneaks in one night after you__e closed for the day and flips the board.

Wal-Mart can't seem to grasp an essential fact: in 2006, the company has exactly the reputation it has earned. No, we don't give the company adequate credit for low prices. But the broken covenant Sam Walton had with how to treat store employees, the relentless pressure that hollows out companies and dilutes the quality of their products, the bullying of suppliers and communities, the corrosive secrecy, the way Wal-Mart has changed our own perception of price and quality, of value and durability--none of these is imaginary, or trivial, or easily changed with a fresh set of bullet points, an impassioned speech, and a website heavy with "Wal-Mart facts".If Wal-Mart does in fact double the gas mileage of its truck fleet, and thereby double the gas mileage of every long-haul truck in America, that will be huge. It will change gas consumption in the United States in a single stroke. But it hasn't happened yet. And even if it does, it will not make Wal-Mart a good company or a good corporate partner or a good corporate citizen.

There's nothing wrong with staying small. You can do big things with a small team.

Wal-Mart benefits from the impression that globalization is some kind of unmanageable economic weather system out of the control of everyone, affecting all players with indifference, benefiting those who happened to be properly prepared.

Our hesitancy to take credit for our accomplishments results in a loss of power, influence, and political capital in the workplace.

How Ironic, when you do business you create exceptions to create new opportunities, when you write code (do a job) you handle exception to make it clean.

A friend__ 14-year-old niece was asked by her teacher what she wanted to be when she finished school. The teacher asked her to think hard about it and then get back to him with an answer. She didn__ know what to say to her teacher. A friend, on hearing the girl__ predicament, said: __ell your teacher that, perhaps, the thing you want to be when you leave school hasn__ been invented yet.

Sales professional is a profession deals with people, it's a people business not a selling job.

If it's glorious to fail in great attempts, then #gloriousfail should definitely be a thing.

In our own lives, we will try something new and, finding that it isn't easy for us, we conclude we don't have a talent for it.

Reputation is an outcome; but it is also a valuable, strategic asset.

Every leader is different. Every bench is different. Every business is different. So while the complexities change, the work of coaching stays the same keep your clients at the center of the work, push them to use their strengths more and to temper their weaknesses, and illuminate blind spots because these are what really get in the way.