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What gets measured gets done.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
Measured
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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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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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Don't let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it -- with bazookas as well as sniper's rifles.
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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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