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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.

Tom Peters

The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
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
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
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
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Business Design Poor Process Quality
We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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Age Digital Space
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
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 idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
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
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Improvement Pursuit Support
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence

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