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More Tom Peters Quotes
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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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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The 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.
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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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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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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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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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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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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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