Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
TOM PETERSWithout exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.
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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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Hire attitude train skills.
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Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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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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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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For me, reading is reading.
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