And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
TOM PETERSThe top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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What gets measured gets done.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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You are your projects!
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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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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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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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The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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