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

Tom Peters

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Leader Peter Principles
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
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Best Economy Home Secret Today
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
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
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
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
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
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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People Teamwork Thinking
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past

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