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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.

Tom Peters

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
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
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
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
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Believe Secret Statistically World
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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Degree Leadership Sorry Team
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
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
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
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training

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