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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As Thank yous for good things small-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
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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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It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.
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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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But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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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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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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The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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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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We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
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Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
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We are all Michaelangelos.
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The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
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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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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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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.
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