Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
TOM PETERSMake an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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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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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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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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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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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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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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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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A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Sorry, 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.
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