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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

Tom Peters

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
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Challenges Competition Tools
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
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
Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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Concept Exhilarating Mistake Occasionally Passion Peace
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Blue Office Revolution White
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
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
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live

If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.

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