Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
TOM PETERSI find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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 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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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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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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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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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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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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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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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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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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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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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