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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

Tom Peters

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
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.
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Miserable Stuff Trying Way
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
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
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Calendar Care Lying Priorities
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
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
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
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
We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Demand Elements Important
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Halos Powerful Want

How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!

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