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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

Tom Peters

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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Book Growing Hallmark Parks
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
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
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
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
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
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility
Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Connections Littles Mind
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul
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
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
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

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

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