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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.

Tom Peters

Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Biotech Business Cease Dream Engorged
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Community People Way
Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Bigger Encouraged Mistake
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
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
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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Knowledge Learning Off Pissed
Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
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
Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Business Educational Inspirational
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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Initiatives Manufacturing Reach Reputation
Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Botches Cherished Country People

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