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.
TOM PETERSLife 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.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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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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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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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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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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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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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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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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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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