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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!

Tom Peters

We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Best Economy Home Secret Today
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
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
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
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
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility

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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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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