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

Tom Peters

What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Colleagues Greatest Lately Networthy
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
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
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
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
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Community People Way
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
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
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change

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

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