Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
TOM PETERSFor me, reading is reading.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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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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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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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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What gets measured gets done.
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If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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You are your projects!
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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