Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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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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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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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 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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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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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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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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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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