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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.

Tom Peters

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Challenges Competition Tools
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
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Book Growing Hallmark Parks
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
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
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
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
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Connections Littles Mind
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
Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Careers Leadership Two
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Better Business Love Passion Period
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Digital Easier Paper
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

Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.

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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.

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