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Tom Peters

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
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
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
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
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
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
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Colleagues Greatest Lately Networthy
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition
Passion. 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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Concept Exhilarating Mistake Occasionally Passion Peace
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long

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