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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.

Tom Peters

What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
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
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
TOM PETERS

Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Educational Funny Leadership
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Leader Peter Principles
We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Demand Elements Important
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
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
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Community People Way
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
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
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
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

Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.

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