The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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More Tom Peters Quotes
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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Don’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.
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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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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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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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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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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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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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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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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