Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
TOM PETERSThe best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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What gets measured gets done.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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For me, reading is reading.
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Stop 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!
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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