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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

It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Anything Matter Offering Quality
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
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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Business Remembers Everything Vulnerable
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
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
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Facts Life Reinvented White
Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Biotech Business Cease Dream Engorged
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
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
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst
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

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