Like profound lyrics that lift spirits and make you feel like you can fly.
Like brush strokes that paint your life in the most tantalizing hues conceivable
A great book can accentuate every feeling, every emotion and every thought!
Books to me are the ultimate therapy for the restless mind. I remember when i first read The Circle of Innovation by Tom Peters[it was then clean,un-scribbled, minus bright coloured post its wedged in every other page,un-highlighted] i was so smitten by bright colours,the bold fonts with the bolder words that popped out like a tempting pieces of candy just waiting to be consumed!!
I've read a fair share of books but Tom Peters 'Circle of Innovation' is one of those books that you can re-read and it hits you differently every time!!Was leafing through it the other day and here are some of the things that still strike a chord!
- Reward excellent failures, punish mediocre successes
- Empower yourself NOW OR ELSE...
- If the other guys getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guys getting better...or you're getting worse
- Forgetting -not learning-is the highest art
- ME INC.-take immediate responsibility for change.B your own roc
- The death of distance marks the birth of real competition
- You don't leap a chasm in 2 bounds
- Destruction is cool
- Incrementalism is innovations worst enemy
- If you're spending every waking professional hour making "it" better today than yesterday...then... necessarily...you aren't spending every waking hour working on reinventing it,blowing it up!
- Think revolution on evolution
- Selection processes can only work on available diversity,success boils down to accidents...new tries..
- I believe in waste.Waste is very important in creativity.
- Do the right thing the first time is insane advice
- If it aint broke..break it[or somebody else will break it for u!!
- Only the paranoid survive
- You cant live without an eraser
- The greatest difficulty in the worlds is not for people to accept new ideas,but to make them forget about old ideas
- You miss 100% of the shots you dont take
- If you are not bloodying your nose in todays warp speed economy,we have a word for u.'Dead'
- In this company you'll be fired for not making mistakes
- All innovations are silly\
- We are all Michelangelos
- The best thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to allow its members to discover their own greatness
- The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. Take it
- Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing
- Its the cracked ones that let the light into the world
- You say you don’t want emotional, volatile and unpredictable, just imaginative? Sorry they only come in a package...I can offer you a dedicated, loyal, honest, realistic, knowledgeable package, but the imagination bit will be rather limited
- Our most beloved products were developed by hunch, guesswork and fanaticism,but creators who were eccentric-or even stark raving mad
- What you know changes,who you are doesnt
- You cant find what you're not looking for
- The best way to evaluate people is to watch them work
- Whats your rate of depreciation?
- Encourage serious sabbaticals
- Luantic fringe!you cant behave in a calm,rational manner,you've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe!
- Passion demands FIXATION.
- Passion demands TRUTH...Tell the truth!
- Passion demands LOUD!Im here to live my life OUT LOUD!
- Passion demands OUTTA CONTROL!If things seem under control, you're just not going fast enough!
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