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

Tom Peters

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
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
It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Anything Matter Offering Quality
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Change Demand Past
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
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
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Average Differences Imagination
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
Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Devil Entrepreneur Phones

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