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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

Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
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
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
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
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
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
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Calendar Care Lying Priorities
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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Initiatives Manufacturing Reach Reputation
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
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
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify

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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