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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.

Tom Peters

Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Challenges Competition Tools
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
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
The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Important Media Ultimately Want
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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Arrogance Ideas Organization
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Decision Leader Rap
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Book Growth Thinking
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
Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Entrepreneur Excellence Lasts
If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Asking Important People

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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