Public Speaking is a skill that can be studied, polished, perfected. Not only can you get good at it, you can get damn good at it and it makes a heck of a difference.
TOM PETERSDivas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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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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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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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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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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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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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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