I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
TOM PETERSThe race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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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 top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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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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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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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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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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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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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?
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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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 number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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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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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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