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We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.

Tom Peters

Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Buzz Figure Sneakers Today Transcend
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Business Incidentally Sorry Specialization Years
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Connections Littles Mind
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence

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