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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

You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Calendar Care Lying Priorities
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Community People Way
It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Anything Matter Offering Quality
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Educational Funny Leadership
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding

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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