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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

Tom Peters

Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
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
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Leader Peter Principles
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Digital Easier Paper
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Decision Leader Rap
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
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
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative

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