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Tom Peters

Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
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
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Connections Littles Mind
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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Bazookas Rifles Vision
The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
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
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues

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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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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