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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.

Tom Peters

Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
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
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Column Impact Labels Make Tables
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Best Economy Home Secret Today
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
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Challenges Competition Tools
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

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