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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.

Tom Peters

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
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
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Leader Peter Principles
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Believe Secret Statistically World
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Business Incidentally Sorry Specialization Years
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Demand Elements Important
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
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
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
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
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation

Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.

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