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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?

Tom Peters

The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Believe Secret Statistically World
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
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
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
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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Degree Leadership Sorry Team
Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Buzz Figure Sneakers Today Transcend
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Individual Levels Mean Military War
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
I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Business Country Growth Real
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Corporations Loyalty Trying

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