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Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
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I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
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The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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Don't settle for less than is possible.
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Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.
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Now that gigabytes of accessible, malleable information can be carried in one's pocket, we probably will start to see some widespread shifts and trends in how and where people interact with digital documents.
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To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
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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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If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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