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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.

Tom Peters

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Business Dull Lunch
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Ambiguity Era Flaws Mars Unprecedented Volatility
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
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
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
How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Achieve Excellence Stuff
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Demand Elements Important
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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Caring Stars Talking

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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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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