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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

Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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Concept Exhilarating Mistake Occasionally Passion Peace
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
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
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Differences Public Speaking Skills
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
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
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Improvement Pursuit Support
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
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Facts Life Reinvented White
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 live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train

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