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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
Tom Peters
Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich support network so their pioneers will flourish. This point is so important it's hard to overstress. No support systems, no champions. No champions, no innovations.
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Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
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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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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
Tom Peters
Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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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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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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I don't want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as 'pops' giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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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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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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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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Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
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Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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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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