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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

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
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Digital Library 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
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Ideas Passion People
The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Athlete Crafts Way
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Academic Library Strong Tuition
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting

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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