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Tom Peters

Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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Leader Right Timer Version War Winning
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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Entering Important May
Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Appreciate Assets Business
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Better Business Love Passion Period
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
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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Giving Thinking Understand Years
You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Eraser Happen Life Live
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Prototype Reign Work
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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Connections Littles Mind
Hire attitude train skills.
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Attitude Skills Train
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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Leader Peter Principles
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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Differences Educational Ideas Mean Occur
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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Everyone Everywhere Ideas Listen
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Clean Desk Company Nuts Office Policy
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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Calendar Care Lying Priorities

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