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

Tom Peters

Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Inspirational Leader Ultimate
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Educational Funny Leadership
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Abet Availability Information
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
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
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Digital Easier Paper
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Giving Thinking Understand Years
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
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Leader Peter Principles
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
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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