If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
TOM PETERSEffective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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You are your projects!
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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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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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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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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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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