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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Baltimore
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!
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Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
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I am confident that for the foreseeable future (barring some catastrophic event affecting economic, energy, electrical, and communications systems), many subpopulations that use information intensively (e.g., students, academics, library patrons, white collar workers) will be using some sort of portal information appliance.
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Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.
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What gets measured gets done.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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If timing ain't everything, it's damn close
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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.
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Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.
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Divas 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.
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Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
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It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.
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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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