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Tom Peters

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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Blue Office Revolution White
What gets measured gets done.
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Done Inspirational Customer Service Measurement
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
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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Coffee Kids Passion
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Best Economy Home Secret Today
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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Column Impact Labels Make Tables
Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Book Growth Thinking
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Business Competition Excellence
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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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
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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Challenges Competition Tools
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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High Levels Past Standards
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Anything Change Fact Successful Worse Yesterday
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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Giving Thinking Understand Years

Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.

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