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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

How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Individual Levels Mean Military War
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Leader Peter Principles
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Community People Way
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
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
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
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Better Business Love Passion Period
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Culture Essentials Quality
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Average Differences Imagination
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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Educational Funny Leadership
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Digital Easier Paper
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Careers Leadership Two
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Business Creativity Fun

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