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Don't settle for less than is possible.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.
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Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. 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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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Good managers have a bias for action.
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You have to stand out if you want to move up.
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Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw muscle, heart, and soul into making the dream come true, then WoW Projects-and all of the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and financial riches that they bring will surely NOT be our lot in life!
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Digital content and electronic networks have changed the basic environmental conditionsin which documents are created, distributed, and used.
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The world has not just turned upside down. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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