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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

Tom Peters

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
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
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
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Giving Thinking Understand Years
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Deviltry Mad Passion Race
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
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
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.

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