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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

Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
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
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Change Demand Past
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
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
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Accelerating Pace Way World
Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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Concept Exhilarating Mistake Occasionally Passion Peace

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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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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