The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
TOM PETERSI think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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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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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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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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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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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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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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For me, reading is reading.
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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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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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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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