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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

Tom Peters

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
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Bigger Encouraged Mistake
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Challenges Competition Tools
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
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
Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Decision Leader Rap
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
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
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

The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.

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