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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

Tom Peters

For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Business Design Poor Process Quality
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
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 company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
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
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Decision Leader Rap
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
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork

A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

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