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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.

~Tom Peters

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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.

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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.

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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.

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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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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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One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Businessman

Born: November 7th, 1942

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