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Community organizing is all ab...

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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Regardless of age, regardless ...

Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

All white-collar work is proje...

All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

I think it's wonderful to save...

I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

If your company has a clean-de...

If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

Mastery is great, but even tha...

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

The best leaders... almost wit...

The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

We found that the most excitin...

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.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

All business success rests on ...

All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

As far as I'm concerned, the f...

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.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

Design is so critical it shoul...

Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

I don't read many business boo...

I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

I don't want the 35-year-olds ...

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 275 quotes

One simply cannot pay tribute ...

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

South Africa has all the tools...

South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

The top athletes are consummat...

The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

Stop being conned by the old m...

Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!

Tom Peters 275 quotes

The workplace revolution that ...

The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

Business book writing for me i...

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.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

For the blue-collar worker, th...

For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmable machine tools. For the office worker, it's office automation using computer technology: enterprise-resource-planning systems, groupware, intranets, extranets, expert systems, the Web, and e-commerce.

Tom Peters 275 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

Мэрилин Монро, Ким Кардашьян и другие

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Неузнаваемая Ким Кардашьян в объективе фотографа Маркуса Клинко, 2009 год. Памела Андерсон в самой первой съёмке для журнала «Playboy», 1990. На фото голливудская актриса Dorothy Lamour и шимпанзе Джи...

Что стало с детьми-звездами: Рэдклифф и компания спустя годы

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

Жизнь за границей: как изменились судьбы 7 уехавших телеведущих

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

Кира Найтли, Деми Мур и другие

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....