The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
TOM PETERSThe common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
TOM PETERSHire attitude train skills.
TOM PETERSMake an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
TOM PETERSCommunity. 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.
TOM PETERSThe widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
TOM PETERSDevelop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
TOM PETERSI don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
TOM PETERSCelebrate what you want to see more of.
TOM PETERSUltimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
TOM PETERSA vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
TOM PETERSThe thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
TOM PETERSListen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
TOM PETERSWhat 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 PETERSMastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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.
TOM PETERSAuthority 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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