As long as we also maintain the flip side of the coin's perspective as well: acting too hastily without thinking strategically. Older, bigger companies lack that urgency (as a veteran of AT&T, I can attest to this) but sometimes startups and entrepreneurs spend all their time bouncing from idea to idea without focus.

Think about it in terms of a body of water:

Lack of urgency and haste creates a stagnant, dead pool.
The right amount of urgency and haste, coupled with focus and direction, creates a rushing river that takes you where you want to go.
Urgency and haste with no focus but high energy creates a maelstrom that destroys everything it touches.

Also, I'll disagree with #10: Everyone is in sales. Everyone. Every time an employee of your company logs into a social network, they represent the company for good or ill. Every time an employee talks to someone at a neighborhood block party and someone asks the question, "So what do you do?", they represent the company and are effectively part of the sales force. The smartest, best companies make sure all employees are empowered to assist with sales, from passing leads to closing it up themselves.

Ask Domino's Pizza if the two clowns on YouTube were in sales. Negatively, absolutely. Their silly stunt, real or fake, had a huge negative impact on sales. Ask Comcast if Frank Eliason's team did anything for sales, even though they were customer service. Everyone is in sales, whether they know it or not. In the age of six pixels of separation, where everyone is just a few clicks apart, sales is just one more click away from any online employee.

Tom Hopkins, the sales trainer, notes that sales is:

- the easiest LOW paying job in the world
- the hardest HIGH paying job in the world

but if you crush it at sales, it's the only profession where YOU decide what your pay is, YOU decide what your income potential is (and how much of that potential you actualize), and YOU are in charge of your career. The very top sales people in the world can do whatever they want, go wherever they go, and as long as they hit or exceed their numbers every time, there will be lines of CEOs and managers banging down their door.