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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.

Tom Peters

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
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Accelerating Pace Way World
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
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
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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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
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
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Able Mastery Remorse Sweat
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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Caring Stars Talking
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer

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