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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.

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Tom Peters
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
Businessperson
Economist
Writer
Baltimore
Maryland
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Underestimated
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If timing ain't everything, it's damn close
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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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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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For me, reading is reading.
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Develop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain't in the mean, the mode or the median - it's in the differences that occur throughout a population.
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Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
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Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.
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To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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They say plan it. I say do it.
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Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
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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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Companies have got to learn to eat change for breakfast.
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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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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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...high end does not necessarily equal high price. It's a matter of attitude.
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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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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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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
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