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Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#build #center #doing #every #extravagant

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

— Tom Peters

#company #customer #labeled #least #momentarily

Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#chooses #day #each #legal #many

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military. ↗

— Ralph Peters

#conflicts #countries #i #many #military

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. ↗

— Tom Peters

#almost #comes #design #improvement #layout

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

#bureaucratic #companies #environments #excellent #exciting

The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. ↗

— Tom Peters

#customers #discovered #employees #formula #guests

The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. ↗

— Tom Peters

#attention #deal #great #great deal #paying

A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside. ↗

— Tom Peters

#growth #leave #passive #professional #wayside

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