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Leadership Lessons To Help Guide You To Excellence

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He’s out with yet another co-authored book with Nancye Green called — Tom Peters’ Compact Guide to Excellence. He's single-handedly invented, and he's out with yet another co-authored book, uh, co-authored with Nancy Green, entitled Tom Peters Compact Guide to Excellence. Uh, Nancy Green is no slouch on her own, right?

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

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Lund, 1997, 1998, 1999 ). New York: Watson-Guptill Publishers. We ended up with Helvetiva, albeit at a slighly larger size than many of our European cousins, in white on dark-green or blue, or black on white. There are some high profile studies which claim to show the superiority of serif typefaces ( Robinson et al.,