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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

Tom Peters

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
The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Accelerating Pace Way World
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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People Teamwork Thinking
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
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
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
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
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way
Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Buzz Figure Sneakers Today Transcend
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement

Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.

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