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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.

Tom Peters

TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
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
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Better Business Love Passion Period
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
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
We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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Age Digital Space

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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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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