If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
TOM PETERSStop 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!
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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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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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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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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Community. 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.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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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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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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You can only improve what you measure.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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