Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
TOM PETERSBusiness is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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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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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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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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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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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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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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