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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.

Tom Peters

The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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Bazookas Rifles Vision
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Leader Peter Principles
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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People Teamwork Thinking
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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Business Customer Genuine Kings Silly
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
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Book Growing Hallmark Parks
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership

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