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Tom Peters

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
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
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
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
We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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Age Digital Space
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Calendar Care Lying Priorities
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
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
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
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
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Average Differences Imagination
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence

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