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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

Tom Peters

…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
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
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst
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
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
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
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
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
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
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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Challenges People Reading
Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
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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