If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
TOM PETERSIf your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
TOM PETERSMastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
TOM PETERSThe company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
TOM PETERSThe race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
TOM PETERSIf there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
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!
TOM PETERSLists simplify, clarify, edify.
TOM PETERSSomething mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
TOM PETERSForget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
TOM PETERSPortability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
TOM PETERSAuthority never matches responsibility. That’s one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority.
TOM PETERSListen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
TOM PETERSConfidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
TOM PETERSA passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
TOM PETERSWho comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
TOM PETERSKnowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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