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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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An era similar to the one in which the black rotary phone dominated its product category may not recur anytime soon.
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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.
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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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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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In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.
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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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Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to get a reputation as a prissy worrywart, worrying about the details in private is important. You may think you are the world's greatest speaker, but if the auditorium's sound system is singing static - well, forget it.
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Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
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I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the utmost importance and urgency of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is the premier way to have intimate conversations with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!
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There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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They say plan it. I say do it.
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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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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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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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