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 PETERSLife is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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To 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.
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The dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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Portability of lots of information should not be underestimated.
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