Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
TOM PETERSGarbage! 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.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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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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Leaders win through logistics. Vision, sure. Strategy, yes. But when you go to war, you need to have both toilet paper and bullets at the right place at the right time. In other words, you must win through superior logistics.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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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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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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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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