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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.

Tom Peters

Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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Business Remembers Everything Vulnerable
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute
Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Column Impact Labels Make Tables
The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Accelerating Pace Way World
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Abet Availability Information
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Business Creativity Fun
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues

Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.

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