Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
TOM PETERSYou can only improve what you measure.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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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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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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What gets measured gets done.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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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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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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