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

Tom Peters

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
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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Degree Leadership Sorry Team
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Business Design Poor Process Quality
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
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
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
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
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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