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.
TOM PETERSDon’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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For me, reading is reading.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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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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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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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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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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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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