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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.

Tom Peters

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
If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Asking Important People
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Digital Easier Paper
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
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
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 common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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Business Customer Genuine Kings Silly
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Book Growing Hallmark Parks
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way

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