I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
TOM PETERSSome people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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The good news – and it is largely good news – is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark
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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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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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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 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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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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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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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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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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