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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.

Tom Peters

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
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way
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
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
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 best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Best Economy Home Secret Today
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
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
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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Business Creativity Fun
The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Important Media Ultimately Want
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards

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