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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.

Tom Peters

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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Halos Powerful Want
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Important Media Ultimately Want
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
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
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Decision Leader Rap
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 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
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
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
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
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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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday

The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.

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