Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
TOM PETERSDevelop 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.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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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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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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What gets measured gets done.
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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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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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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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The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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