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Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.

Tom Peters

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
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Ideas Passion People
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
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
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
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
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Corporations Loyalty Trying
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Challenges Competition Tools
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Business Dull Lunch
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues

Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.

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Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.

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