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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.

Tom Peters

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
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
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
Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Careers Leadership Two
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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Initiatives Manufacturing Reach Reputation
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
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
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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Business Remembers Everything Vulnerable
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
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

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.

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