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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?

Tom Peters

With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Biotech Business Cease Dream Engorged
If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Asking Important People
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
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
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Average Differences Imagination
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Anything Matter Offering Quality
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Business Educational Inspirational
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
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

What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?

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