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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
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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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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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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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Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.
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I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in the new economy. And I know we'd better figure out the answer to my question-quick.
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To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
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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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Don't settle for less than is possible.
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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 best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
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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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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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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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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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If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or you're getting worse.
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Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
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