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

Tom Peters

Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Individual Levels Mean Military War
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
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 passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
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
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
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
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Deviltry Mad Passion Race
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Blue Office Revolution White
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
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
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Biotech Business Cease Dream Engorged

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

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