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“Just because you can doesn't mean you should”
― William C. Taylor, Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself

“President Theodore Roosevelt offered a definition of success that has stood the test of time. “Far and away the best prize that life offers,” he said, “is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”
― William C. Taylor, Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things In Extraordinary Ways

“The most creative leaders are smart yet naive, playful but disciplined, humble, and proud.”
― William C. Taylor, Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things In Extraordinary Ways

“the lowest price nor the highest quality, but the depth and consistency of the human interactions between a company and its customers.”
― William C. Taylor, Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself – Innovation Ideas for Business Leaders

“Vuja dé is the flip side of that—looking at a familiar situation (an industry you’ve worked in for decades, products you’ve worked on for years) as if you’ve never seen it before, and, with that fresh line of sight, developing a distinctive point of view on the future.”
― William C. Taylor, Practically Radical: Not-So-Crazy Ways to Transform Your Company, Shake Up Your Industry, and Challenge Yourself – Innovation Ideas for Business Leaders

“Run your business like you own it. When you trust people to solve problems and make decisions, and then let them go, that’s when the magic happens.”
― William C. Taylor, Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things In Extraordinary Ways

“How a company is perceived, Bezos concluded, largely came down to how it behaved, and how its behaviors compared with those of its direct competitors. “Rudeness is not cool,” he warned his colleagues. “Defeating tiny guys is not cool,” he added. “Polite is cool,” he argued, “defeating bigger, unsympathetic guys is cool.”
― William C. Taylor, Simply Brilliant: How Great Organizations Do Ordinary Things In Extraordinary Ways