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?
TOM PETERSThe number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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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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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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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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Authority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
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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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