If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
TOM PETERSVision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Accept change as a friend. And don’t take yourself too seriously.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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You can’t think your way out of a box; you’ve got to act.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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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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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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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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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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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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Now that I have adopted into my own daily life a device that makes music and spoken-word files easy to access from anywhere, I have tempered my skepticism.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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