Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
TOM PETERSEvery managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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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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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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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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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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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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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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