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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

Tom Peters

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
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
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Able Mastery Remorse Sweat
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
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
I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Business Country Growth Real
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
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

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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