Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
TOM PETERSThe idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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For me, reading is reading.
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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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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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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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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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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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