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

Tom Peters

The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
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
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
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
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
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
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Knowledge Learning Off Pissed
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Leader Peter Principles

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

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