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Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.

Tom Peters

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
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
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
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
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Decades Issues Technology
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
Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Excellence Minutes Next
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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Change Demand Past
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
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Integrity Littles May
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success

Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.

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Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.

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