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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
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
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
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
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
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Blue Office Revolution White
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Faster Moving Race
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Best Leader Leader Learners
The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Customers Ideas Intimately
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Attitide Attitude Matter
Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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Concept Exhilarating Mistake Occasionally Passion Peace

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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