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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.

Tom Peters

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
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
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
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
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
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
Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Differences Public Speaking Skills
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Community People Way
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Corporations Loyalty Trying
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
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
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

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