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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

Tom Peters

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
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
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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Business Remembers Everything Vulnerable
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
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
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
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
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
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
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Business Educational Inspirational
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader

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