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

Tom Peters

Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Abet Availability Information
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Calendar Care Lying Priorities
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
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
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
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Corporations Loyalty Trying

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

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