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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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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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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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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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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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The delivery and presentation media are important, and each format has its advantages and disadvantages, but ultimately I just want to read what I want to read, when and where I want.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Don't settle for less than is possible.
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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we' they think 'team'.
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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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My half-baked reading of history is that we continue to go through these waves of entrepreneurial explosion followed by merger mania and consolidation. Out of that come big sluggish companies that eventually collapse under the weight of what they've created, and are killed off by the next wave of entrepreneurs.
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Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be' wild and woolly!
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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
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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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Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right.
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Only pissed-off people change the world.
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In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.
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Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
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What gets measured gets done.
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