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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

Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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Initiatives Manufacturing Reach Reputation
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Facts Life Reinvented White
Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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Arrogance Ideas Organization
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
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself

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