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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.

Tom Peters

Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
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
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Deviltry Mad Passion Race
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Average Differences Imagination
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Individual Levels Mean Military War
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Book Growing Hallmark Parks
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
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 dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Business Incidentally Sorry Specialization Years
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
Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Connections Littles Mind
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Biotech Business Cease Dream Engorged

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