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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

Tom Peters

Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Demand Elements Important
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
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
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
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Culture Essentials Quality
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Bigger Encouraged Mistake
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Knowledge Learning Off Pissed
Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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Caring Stars Talking
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
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
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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Degree Leadership Sorry Team

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

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