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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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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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Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.
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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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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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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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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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The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
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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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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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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 difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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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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I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
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Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.
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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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Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?
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Good managers have a bias for action.
Tom Peters