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More Tom Peters Quotes
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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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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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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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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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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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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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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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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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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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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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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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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