Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
TOM PETERSMistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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For me, reading is reading.
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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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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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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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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You are your projects!
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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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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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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