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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.

Tom Peters

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Facts Life Reinvented White
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
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
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Business Country Growth Real
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
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
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
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
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

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