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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

Tom Peters

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
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Business Design Poor Process Quality
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Change Demand Past
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Book Growing Hallmark Parks
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views

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