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The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.

Tom Peters

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.
TOM PETERS

Miserable Stuff Trying Way
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
TOM PETERS

Business Mistake Training
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting
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
Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Devil Entrepreneur Phones
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change Learning Past
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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Inspirational Inspiring Life
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss

The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.

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