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Tom Peters

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
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
Hire disrespectful people.
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Disrespectful People Work
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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Bazookas Rifles Vision
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Culture Essentials Quality
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Entrepreneur Leader Organization
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Decide Important Probably
For me, reading is reading.
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Good Knowledge Learn Read Reading
The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Common Motivation People
The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Design Issues Mistakes Something Understanding
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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Essay Music Spoken Tempered
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Essentials Knowing Loss
Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Business Person Real School Second
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Age Believe Internet
You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Boxes Thinking Way

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