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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.

Tom Peters

Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
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
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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Age Digital Space
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Calendar Care Lying Priorities
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas
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
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Business Design Poor Process Quality
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way

Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.

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