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

Tom Peters

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
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Digital Easier Paper
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library People
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
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 number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Business Creativity Fun
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
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
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
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
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Entrepreneur Memories Views
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts

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