Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
TOM PETERSIf no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven’t figured it out yet.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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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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Hire attitude train skills.
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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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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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Community. 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.
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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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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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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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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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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