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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

Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Anything Matter Offering Quality
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst
I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Business Country Growth Real
The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
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
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
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next

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