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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
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Baltimore
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
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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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Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.
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I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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You can't live life without an eraser.
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There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.
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The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
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For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection.
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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They say plan it. I say do it.
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To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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