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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

Tom Peters

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
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
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Abet Availability Information
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul
Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Buzz Figure Sneakers Today Transcend
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
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
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Column Impact Labels Make Tables
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
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

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

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