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Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.

Tom Peters

Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Decision Leader Rap
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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Business Remembers Everything Vulnerable
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
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
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
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
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
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
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

Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.

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Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.

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