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Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.
— Tom Peters
Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one's corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
— Tom Peters
You have to stand out if you want to move up.
— Tom Peters
The trick, and it's a tough one, is a common cultural understanding of what kind of failure is okay and what kind leads to disaster. But
— Tom Peters
Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
— Tom Peters
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
— Tom Peters
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
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I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.
— Tom Peters
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
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An ability to embrace new ideas, routinely challenge old ones, and live with paradox will be the effective leader's premier trait.
— Tom Peters
GIVE THE WORLD A CLEAR PICTURE OF WHO YOU ARE.
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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
— Tom Peters
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
— Tom Peters
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
— Tom Peters
There are few things that will take you further in life, than your ability to make a good presentation.
— Tom Peters
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are imperatives.
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
— Tom Peters
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
— Tom Peters
One size NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period
— Tom Peters
Only those who constantly retool themselves stand a chance of staying employed in the years ahead.
— Tom Peters
The best leaders ... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
— Tom Peters
Good managers have a bias for action.
— Tom Peters
We are no doubt in the Great Age of the Brand.
— Tom Peters
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Remember my mantra: distinct ... or extinct.
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Life is too short for non-WOW projects.
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Send 10-TEN!!-people flowers. Today. As "Thank yous" for good things "small"-or even large-done in the last two weeks.
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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
— Tom Peters
Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today
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I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.
— Tom Peters
Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success.
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Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public?
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You are your projects!
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If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.
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The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
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We are all Michaelangelos.
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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
— Tom Peters
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas.
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Don't settle for less than is possible.
— Tom Peters
Branding is about everything.
— Tom Peters
If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.
— Tom Peters
Advantage comes not from the spectacular or the technical. Advantage comes from a persistent seeking of the mundane edge.
— Tom Peters
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
Do it, fix it, try it.
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The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
— Tom Peters
Remember: You are the only human being in the world who can help this particular customer at this particular moment in time.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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The selfish leader will attempt to lead others for their own gain and for the detriment of others.
— Tom Peters
Are Your Customers saying WOW?
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.
— Tom Peters
The world has not just "turned upside down". It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Change is not so much about being the first one to embrace a new idea, but being the first to forget an old one
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Hire for attitude. Train for skill ... More
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When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period.
— Tom Peters
Creating in all employees the awareness that their best efforts are essential and that they will share in the rewards of the company's success.
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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.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation - and about fundamental relations with one's fellows.
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One percent improvement in 1,000 things is better than 1,000% improvement in one thing.
— Tom Peters
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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The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided.
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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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You can
only improve what you measure. — Tom Peters
only improve what you measure. — Tom Peters
The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
— Tom Peters