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Tom Peters

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Congratulations Inspirational Leadership
The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Defend Thing Worse Yesterday
Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Information Portability Should
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Educational Inspirational Success
You are your projects!
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Country Execution People Projects
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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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
Become 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.
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Arrogance Ideas Organization
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
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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Business Customer Genuine Kings Silly
And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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Business Remembers Everything Vulnerable
Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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Digital Library Usage Widerspread
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Age Cities Congregate Digital
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train

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