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

Tom Peters

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
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
A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Free Library Lunch Rare
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
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
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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Concept Exhilarating Mistake Occasionally Passion Peace
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
Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Ability Appropriate Committed Limits
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
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
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Blue Office Revolution White

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

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