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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

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting
Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Decision Leader Rap
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Educational Funny Leadership
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
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
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
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
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
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 magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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