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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

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
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Facts Life Reinvented White
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Coffee Kids Passion
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
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
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Believe Secret Statistically World
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Age Cities Congregate Digital
The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Important Media Ultimately Want
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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Degree Leadership Sorry Team
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
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
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst
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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Arrogance Ideas Organization
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
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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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
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
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Devil Entrepreneur Phones
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Improvement Pursuit Support
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Careers Leadership Two
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Community People Way
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way

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