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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.

Tom Peters

Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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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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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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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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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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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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