All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
TOM PETERSAs a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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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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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 race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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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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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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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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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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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 dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Today 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.
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