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

Tom Peters

Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
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
Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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Initiatives Manufacturing Reach Reputation
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
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
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
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
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
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
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 best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Column Impact Labels Make Tables

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

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