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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.

Tom Peters

Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
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 while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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People Teamwork Thinking
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
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 simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Business Incidentally Sorry Specialization Years
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Individual Levels Mean Military War
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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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
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
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
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Corporations Loyalty Trying
We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Demand Elements Important
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Change Demand Past

The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.

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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.

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