Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
TOM PETERSIf you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
More Tom Peters Quotes
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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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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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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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Fact 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.
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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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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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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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