Learn from the experts. Study successful men and women and do what they do and you'll be successful too.
Pick your role models wisely, find out what they did and do it.
Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
Unless your answers are clearly better, copy the answers of your betters.
You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers.
We can all learn something from people we admire.
If there's a British film in the marketplace that is successful on a worldwide basis - whether it's 'A Room with a View,' 'Four Weddings' or 'The Full Monty' - money follows, and everyone tries to emulate that success.
