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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.

Tom Peters

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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Next Strategy Volunteer
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Corporations Loyalty Trying
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
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Demand Innovation Tasks
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Challenges People Reading
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Halos Powerful Want
I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you’ve got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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Coffee Kids Passion
Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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Caring Stars Talking
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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Inspirational Opportunity Success
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
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
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

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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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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