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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.

Tom Peters

Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
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
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
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
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas

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