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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.

Tom Peters

Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Culture Essentials Quality
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Digital Easier Paper
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Improvement Pursuit Support
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
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
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
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

Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.

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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.

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