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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.

Tom Peters

The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Accelerating Pace Way World
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Book Growth Thinking
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
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
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
It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Anything Matter Offering Quality
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
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
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
Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Column Impact Labels Make Tables
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
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Blue Office Revolution White
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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Degree Leadership Sorry Team
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

If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.

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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.

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