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You have to stand out if you want to move up.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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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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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
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Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.
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If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.
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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 trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.
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Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.
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