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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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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We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
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OLD: Be No.1 or No.2 in Your Market. NEW: Find a Niche, Create Something New.
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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.
Tom Peters
It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
Tom Peters
Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
Tom Peters
The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
Tom Peters
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.
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If timing ain't everything, it's damn close
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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
Tom Peters
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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Perception is all there is. If the customer think he's right, he's right.
Tom Peters
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 find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.
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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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Leaders do stuff that matters.
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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.
Tom Peters
