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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Tom Peters

Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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Bazookas Rifles Vision
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
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
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Change Demand Past
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
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Age Cities Congregate Digital
I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Business Country Growth Real
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

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