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Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
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I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
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MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.
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You can't think your way out of a box you've got to act.
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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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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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Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'
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Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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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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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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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 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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If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a major challenge for libraries to adapt their content and services to such a diverse technological environment.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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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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I am my clients. I am defined by who I do business with.
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The principal reason, invariably, most successful giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.
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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
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