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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

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
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
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
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
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Business Design Poor Process Quality
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
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent

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