Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
TOM PETERSThe day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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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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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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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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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Public 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.
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For me, reading is reading.
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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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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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