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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Tom Peters

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
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
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
Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Biotech Business Cease Dream Engorged
Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Careers Leadership Two
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
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
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition
If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Asking Important People
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter

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