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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.

Tom Peters

Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
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
We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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Age Digital Space
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
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
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
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 common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People

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