Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
TOM PETERSCommunity. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she’d added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
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Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
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Garbage! 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.
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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).
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I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.
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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.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Hire attitude train skills.
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Authority 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.
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It doesn’t matter what product or service you’re offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.
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Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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