If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
TOM PETERSUsage 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.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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For me, reading is reading.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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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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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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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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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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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 best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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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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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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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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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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