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.
TOM PETERSFact 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.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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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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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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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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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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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.
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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