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“The Big Four: Out-read 'em. Out-study 'em. Out-present 'em. Out-listen 'em.”

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November 4, 2010.
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“Musing on the phrase ‘waste of time.’ So much more complex than it appears. Many ‘wastes of time’—small talk, daydreaming—are imperatives.”

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October 7, 2013.
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“Read deep! Read often! Out-READ the 'Competition'!!!”

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20 June 2016
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“What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?”

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Source: Tom Peters Daily, Weekly Quote, February 4, 2013.

“The vitality of our network will determine our professional fate.”

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Source: The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence (2010), p. 50.

“Service is the highest human calling.”

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pg. 41
The Excellence Dividend: Meeting the Tech Tide with Work That Wows and Jobs That Last (2018)

“Bosses: You make your living going to meetings. Hence any meeting that does not bubble and incite enthusiasm is a forever-lost opportunity.”

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Tom Peters on Twitter, 2012.06.03.

“I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote Search. There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove. I went out and talked to genuinely smart, remarkably interesting, first-rate people. I had an infinite travel budget that allowed me to fly first class and stay at top-notch hotels and a license from McKinsey to talk to as many cool people as I could all around the United States and the world.
I went to see Karl Weick, who had totally influenced my life. I had read his work a thousand times, and I'd never met him. I went to Oslo to talk with Einar Thorsrud, who had studied empowerment on oil tankers. I went to the Tavistock Institute in London, where the leading thinkers on organizational development were looking at why people work together effectively in team configurations under certain circumstances.
Word of the meeting got back to McKinsey USA, and I was invited to give a presentation to the top management of PepsiCo… The time was drawing near for the Pepsi presentation to take place. One morning at about 6, I sat down at my desk overlooking the San Francisco Bay from the 48th floor of the Bank of America Tower, and I closed my eyes. Then I leaned forward, and I wrote down eight things on a pad of paper. Those eight things haven't changed since that moment. They were the eight basic principles of Search.”

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Tom Peters (2001) "Tom Peters's True Confessions" in Fast Company, December 2001 ( online http://www.fastcompany.com/44077/tom-peterss-true-confessions, Nov 31, 2001).

“Every excellent company we studied is clear on what it stands for, and takes the process of value shaping seriously. In fact, we wonder whether it is possible to be an excellent company without clarity on values and without having the right sorts of values.”

Tom Peters book In Search of Excellence

Source: In Search of Excellence (1982), p. 280.

“Most of their real innovation comes from the market”

Tom Peters book In Search of Excellence

Source: In Search of Excellence (1982), p. 159.

“No such thing as a 'non-leader.' Every day offers every one of us scads of leadership opportunities.”

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16 October 2017
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“someone with whom I co-invent the future”

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08 May 2017
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“someone with whom I have an intimate relationship”

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“As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you and your gang will … dramatically up the odds of a WOW outcome!”

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November 5, 2010.
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“What gets measured gets done.”

Tom Peters book In Search of Excellence

Attributed to organization theorist Mason Haire. p. 268.
In Search of Excellence (1982)

“The well-served customer…is an appreciating asset. Every small act on her or his behalf ups the odds of repeat business, add-on business, and priceless word-of-mouth referral.”

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January 4, 2016
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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.”

Tom Peters book In Search of Excellence

Source: In Search of Excellence (1982), p. i.

“EXCELLENCE in <140 Characters: Cherish your people, cuddle your customers, wander around, “try it” beats “talk about it,” Excellence or else, tell the truth.”

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TomPeters.com - Abu Dhabi, World Strategy Summit, Main Program, November 17, 2015

“A ‘Client’ is …”

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“In the private or public sector, in big business or small, we observe that there are only two ways to create and sustain superior performance over the long haul. First, take exceptional care of your customers … via superior service and superior quality. Second, constantly innovate. That’s it.”

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28 October 2019
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