We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
TOM PETERSListen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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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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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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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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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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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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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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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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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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