We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
TOM PETERSUltimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
More Tom Peters Quotes
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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What gets measured gets done.
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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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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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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