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.
TOM PETERSThe top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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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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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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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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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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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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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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