A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
TOM PETERSCelebrate what you want to see more of.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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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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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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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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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 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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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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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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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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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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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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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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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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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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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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