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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.

Tom Peters

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
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 magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Business Educational Inspirational
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
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Blue Office Revolution White
Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Devil Entrepreneur Phones
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Business Creativity Fun
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
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
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading

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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