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.
TOM PETERSPublic 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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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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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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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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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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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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