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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.

Tom Peters

Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Inspirational Life Motivational
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Challenges Competition Tools
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
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Age Library Resources
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible
Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Educational Funny Leadership
The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
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
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
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
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
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
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

I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.

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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.

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