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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.

Tom Peters

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
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
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Business Educational Inspirational
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Better Body Feel Soul
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
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
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Cutting Mean Motivational Ventures
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
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

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