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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

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
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
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
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
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Able Mastery Remorse Sweat
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Business Creativity Fun
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Business Design Poor Process Quality
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision

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