For me, reading is reading.
TOM PETERSDot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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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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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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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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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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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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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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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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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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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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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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