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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Hire disrespectful people.
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OPPORTUNITY is not knocking. It is pounding on your door.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Business, life itself, is damned hard work if you wanna be good at it. Actually, that's precisely wrong. Business ceases to be work when you're chasing a dream that has engorged you. (Work should be more fun than fun - Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn't there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
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Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
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Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw muscle, heart, and soul into making the dream come true, then WoW Projects-and all of the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and financial riches that they bring will surely NOT be our lot in life!
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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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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.
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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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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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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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Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
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OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.
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