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

Tom Peters

TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
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
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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Business Remembers Everything Vulnerable
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
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Educational Inspirational Loyalty
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
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
I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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Entering Important May
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
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
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Differences Public Speaking Skills
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence

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