Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
TOM PETERSExcellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
TOM PETERSThe whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
TOM PETERSTo meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
TOM PETERSGarbage! 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.
TOM PETERSHe who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
TOM PETERSI believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
TOM PETERSIf your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
TOM PETERSOrganizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
TOM PETERSThe common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
TOM PETERSTRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
TOM PETERSVision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
TOM PETERSDevelop a respect and reverence for the principle of variation: the idea that the message ain’t in the mean, the mode or the median – it’s in the differences that occur throughout a population.
TOM PETERSThe worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
TOM PETERSSwipe from the best, then adapt.
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 PETERSQuite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how “open” you are, you’ll end up surrounded by “yes people.” It’s hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation.
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