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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.

Tom Peters

The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Careers Leadership Two
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
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
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
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
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
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Blue Office Revolution White
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
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

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