Stop 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!
TOM PETERSSorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
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Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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The good news – and it is largely good news – is that everyone has a chance to stand out. Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills. Everyone has a chance to be a brand worthy of remark
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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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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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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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Garbage! Intuition is the new physics. It’s an Einsteinian, seven-sense, practical way to make tough decisions. Bottom line, circa 2001 to 2010: The crazier the times are, the more important it is for leaders to develop and to trust their intuition.
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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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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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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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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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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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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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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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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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 are your projects!
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What gets measured gets done.
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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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