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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.

Tom Peters

Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
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
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Average Differences Imagination
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
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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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
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
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
I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Business Country Growth Real
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Ideas Passion People
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
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
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
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People

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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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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