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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

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
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
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Biotech Business Cease Dream Engorged
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Culture Essentials Quality
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Believe Secret Statistically World
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
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
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
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
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
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

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