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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.

Tom Peters

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
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Business Dull Lunch
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
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
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
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
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
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
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Community People Way
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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Arrogance Ideas Organization
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Facts Life Reinvented White
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty

What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.

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