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Swipe from the best, then adapt.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
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Baltimore
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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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Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark.
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One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
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As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
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The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
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Don't settle for less than is possible.
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If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.
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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we' they think 'team'.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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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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The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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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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