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You have to stand out if you want to move up.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.
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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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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
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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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Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.
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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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Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.
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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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What gets measured gets done.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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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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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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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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For me, reading is reading.
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In the great city of San Francisco, where I used to live, at 2 in the morning every other Victorian house has somebody who is writing the great American novel. And the city is not loaded with James Joyces or Virginia Woolfs. But entrepreneurship is about distorted views of reality.
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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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Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.
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The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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