South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
TOM PETERSPassion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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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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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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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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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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Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
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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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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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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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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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