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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.

Tom Peters

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
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
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
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
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
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Abet Availability Information
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
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Important Media Ultimately Want
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify

Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.

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