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

Tom Peters

If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Average Differences Imagination
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
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
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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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
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
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
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
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Business Dull Lunch
It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Anything Matter Offering Quality

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