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The Case for Perpetual Revolution

Tom Peters · 10 Sept 1993

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  1. Our reading

    Cutting costs is not a sufficient core strategy for competing against giant, deep-pocketed competitors.

    Their wordsCutting costs any way you can is fine, but it's nutty to imagine such a move as the core strategy for turning the tables on giant, deep-pocket competitors.

  2. Our reading

    To command market leadership again, one must find an entirely new act rather than just improving the current one.

    Their wordsNothing wrong with improving your act. We must all do that, all the time. But if you want to command the heights ever again, you must find a new act.

  3. Our reading

    Conservatism can be a deadly disease when it prevents wholesale transformation.

    Their wordsIt's a noble calling, but a deadly disease when it fills the calendar and gets in the way of wholesale transformation.

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