You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
TOM PETERSIt doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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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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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?
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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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 best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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Be guided by the axiom: There are no limits to the ability to contribute on the part of a properly selected, well-trained, appropriately supported, and, above all, committed person.
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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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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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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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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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