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OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.
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My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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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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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
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I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
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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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Hire disrespectful people.
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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You have to stand out if you want to move up.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
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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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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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The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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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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Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?
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Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.
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