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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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You can't think your way out of a box you've got to act.
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If you're a leader, your whole reason for living is to help human beings develop - to really develop people and make work a place that's energetic and exciting and a growth opportunity, whether you're running a Housekeeping Department or Google. I mean, this is not rocket science.
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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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Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. This valley is loaded to the gills with a whole lot of totally insane people who honest to God believe that they can be the next Bill Gates or the next Scott McNealy. And that is genuinely stupid.
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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.
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An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.
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It's this simple: You are a brand. You are in charge of your brand. There is no single path to success. And there is no one right way to create the brand called You. Except this: Start today. Or else.
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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 silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.
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If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
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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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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?
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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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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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Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
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Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
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Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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One potential long-term problem with many current digital libraries is that they grew out of and aresupported by bricks-and-mortar libraries. Although there is nothing inherently wrong with that arrangement, inreality it creates a potentially dangerous situation that I call the other digital divide.
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