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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

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
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
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
Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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Differences Public Speaking Skills
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Able Excellence Vision
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Book Growing Hallmark Parks
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Business Innovation Innovative
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Improvement Pursuit Support
Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably

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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