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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.

Tom Peters

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
Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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Initiatives Manufacturing Reach Reputation
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
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
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
Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Individual Levels Mean Military War
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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People Teamwork Thinking
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Educational Funny Leadership
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting

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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