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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.

Tom Peters

Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
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
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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Able Mastery Remorse Sweat
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Next Strategy Volunteer
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Accelerating Pace Way World
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way
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
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
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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Bazookas Rifles Vision
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
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation

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