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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.

Tom Peters

I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
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
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
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Improvement Pursuit Support
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Better Business Love Passion Period
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
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
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
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
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst
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
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Column Impact Labels Make Tables

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