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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Tom Peters

Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Business Design Poor Process Quality
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
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
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
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
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Abet Availability Information
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
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
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
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
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet

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