American - Businessman | November 7, 1942 -
The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
Tom Peters
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As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.
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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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Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.
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I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal.
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I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.
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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.
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My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.
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