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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.

Tom Peters

He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Consider Deligated Jobs Leader
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Book Growing Hallmark Parks
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
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
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
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 idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
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
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Enemy Procrastination Thinking Worst

Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.

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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.

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