Celebrate what you want to see more of.
TOM PETERSSouth Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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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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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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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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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
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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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It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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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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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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