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

Tom Peters

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
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
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
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
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Decision Leader Rap
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
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
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
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
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent

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

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