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Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.
Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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There is no such thing as an insignificant improvement.
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Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
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Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
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Lavish credit on anyone and everyone who helped you the least bit.
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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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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
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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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The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators.
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What gets measured gets done.
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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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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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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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I think economics is about passion. Economic progress, whether it is a two-person coffee shop or whether it is Netscape, is about people with brave ideas. Because it is brave to mortgage the house, when you've got two kids, to start a coffee shop.
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The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
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