Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
TOM PETERSIf the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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For me, reading is reading.
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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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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 idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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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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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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Something 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
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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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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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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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