I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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More Tom Peters Quotes
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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And remember: Everything in business is a paradox. To be excellent, you have to be consistent. When you’re consistent, you’re vulnerable to attack. Yes, it’s a paradox. Now deal with it!
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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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You are your projects!
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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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Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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Who 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.
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Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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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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