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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

Tom Peters

The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Educational Funny Leadership
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Abet Availability Information
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
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Book Growing Hallmark Parks
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Digital Easier Paper
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
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 whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Believe Secret Statistically World
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
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Coffee Kids Passion
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work

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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