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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.

Tom Peters

Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Knowledge Learning Off Pissed
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Bigger Encouraged Mistake
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
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Blue Office Revolution White
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
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
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
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
What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Colleagues Greatest Lately Networthy
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Best Economy Home Secret Today
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
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

Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.

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