How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
TOM PETERSPassion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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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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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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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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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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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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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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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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