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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

Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
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
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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People Teamwork Thinking
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
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Culture Essentials Quality
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
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
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
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

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