If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
TOM PETERSStop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
More Tom Peters Quotes
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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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.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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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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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
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