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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.

Tom Peters

Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
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
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
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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Arrogance Ideas Organization
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Corporations Loyalty Trying
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
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
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
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
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
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul

The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.

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