Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
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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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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You can only improve what you measure.
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For me, reading is reading.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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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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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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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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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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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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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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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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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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