Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
TOM PETERSNow that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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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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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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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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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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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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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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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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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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