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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.

Tom Peters

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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Bazookas Rifles Vision
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Business Design Poor Process Quality
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Able Mastery Remorse Sweat
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Knowledge Learning Off Pissed
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
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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Age Cities Congregate Digital
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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Caring Stars Talking
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Bigger Encouraged Mistake
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
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
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
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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Buzz Figure Sneakers Today Transcend
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources

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