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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

The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Average Differences Imagination
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
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Better Business Love Passion Period
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Change Demand Past
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
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Column Impact Labels Make Tables

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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