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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.

Tom Peters

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
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
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
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Business Educational Inspirational
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
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Halos Powerful Want
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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Initiatives Manufacturing Reach Reputation
Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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Business Customer Genuine Kings Silly
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training

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