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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

Tom Peters

Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Differences Public Speaking Skills
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting
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
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
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
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
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
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
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
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
The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
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
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology

Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

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