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Tom Peters
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Tom Peters
Age: 81
Born: 1942
Born: November 7
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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.
Tom Peters
Leaders do stuff that matters.
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A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.
Tom Peters
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.
Tom Peters
I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.
Tom Peters
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.
Tom Peters
Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
Tom Peters
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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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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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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To sell is above all to master the art and science of listening.
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I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
Tom Peters
Because nearly all digital libraries are tied to bricks-and-mortar institutions, the funding base tends to be quite localized.
Tom Peters
The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
Tom Peters
Hire attitude train skills.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Tom Peters
In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.
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