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TOM PETERSThe day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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For me, reading is reading.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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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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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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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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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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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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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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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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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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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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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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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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