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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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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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Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you're consistent, you're vulnerable to attack. Yes, it's a paradox. Now deal with it!
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You can't think your way out of a box you've got to act.
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Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.
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I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
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To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) .... It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational processes that overcome such irregularities-don't bother telling that to a consultant. Hence, we should embrace the real, nonrational, nonlinear world with vigor and glee-and develop enterprise and career strategies accordingl
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I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the utmost importance and urgency of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is the premier way to have intimate conversations with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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If timing ain't everything, it's damn close
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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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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Good managers have a bias for action.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
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