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You can't think your way out of a box you've got to act.
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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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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The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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The principal reason, invariably, most successful giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.
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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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Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.
Tom Peters
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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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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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
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Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
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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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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does. Having tried this for several months, however, I can report from the trenches that, for me, immersive listening is as intellectually challenging, stimulating, and rewarding as immersive reading.
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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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Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
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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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I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
Tom Peters
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
Tom Peters
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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