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

Tom Peters

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
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
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
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Bigger Encouraged Mistake
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
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
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Able Mastery Remorse Sweat
What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Colleagues Greatest Lately Networthy
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Business Incidentally Sorry Specialization Years
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive

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

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