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Tom Peters

Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Corporations Loyalty Trying
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Business Mistake Training
Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Accepting Change
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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Entering Important May
Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Cost Elapsed Long
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Achievement Effective Hard Listening Work
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Needs Thinking World
Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Deliver Formula Success
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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Believe Friends Ideas
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Book Digital Hard People Print
The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Culture Mistake Punishment
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Abet Availability Information
You can only improve what you measure.
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Improve Measure Only People Possible

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