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?
TOM PETERSBecome a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
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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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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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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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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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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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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read 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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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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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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