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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

Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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Bazookas Rifles Vision
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
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
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Halos Powerful Want
Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Individual Levels Mean Military War
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
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
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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Initiatives Manufacturing Reach Reputation
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Knowledge Learning Off Pissed

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