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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Tom Peters

Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Business Incidentally Sorry Specialization Years
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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Challenges Competition Tools
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Calendar Care Lying Priorities
Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Individual Levels Mean Military War
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 magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Business Educational Inspirational
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Giving Thinking Understand Years
Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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Arrogance Ideas Organization

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