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Tom Peters

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
What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Colleagues Greatest Lately Networthy
David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Copywriters Curiosity Subject Sun
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
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Age Cities Congregate Digital
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
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
Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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Answer Anyone Profoundly Sorry Statics Upsetting
Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Edify Lists Simplify
One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Human Lovely Pay Tribute
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
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Doors Havoc Innovation
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Giving Thinking Understand Years
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss

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