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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?

Tom Peters

What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
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
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Change Demand Past
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Coffee Kids Passion
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
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Book Growth Thinking
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
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
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
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter

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