The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
TOM PETERSYou can only improve what you measure.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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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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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles of the white-collar workers.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Hire attitude train skills.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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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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