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.
TOM PETERSPublic Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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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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Hire attitude train skills.
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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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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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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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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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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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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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