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There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.

Tom Peters

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
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Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!
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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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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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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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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
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Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.
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You can't think your way out of a box you've got to act.
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For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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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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Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.
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As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
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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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The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how open you are, you'll end up surrounded by yes people. It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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