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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

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
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Challenges Competition Tools
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
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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Asking Important People
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
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
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Bigger Encouraged Mistake
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
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
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
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Book Growth Thinking
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
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way

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