You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
TOM PETERSToday brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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For me, reading is reading.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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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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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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