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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?

Tom Peters

You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
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
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Age Cities Congregate Digital
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
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
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul
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
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
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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Arrogance Ideas Organization
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Business Design Poor Process Quality

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