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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.

Tom Peters

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 common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
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
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
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute
The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
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
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Giving Thinking Understand Years
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
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Business Dull Lunch
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
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Ideas Passion People

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