What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
TOM PETERSForget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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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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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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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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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Now 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.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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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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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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