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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.

Tom Peters

What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Colleagues Greatest Lately Networthy
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Able Mastery Remorse Sweat
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
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
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
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
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Anything Matter Offering Quality
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
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Differences Public Speaking Skills
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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Bazookas Rifles Vision
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People

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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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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