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

Tom Peters

We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Demand Elements Important
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Deviltry Mad Passion Race
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Book Growing Hallmark Parks
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
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
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
Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Differences Public Speaking Skills
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
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive

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