If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism – the failure to fail, and fail big, in an era of unprecedented volatility and ambiguity.
TOM PETERSWhat is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
More Tom Peters Quotes
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What have you done lately – this week – to make yourself stand out? What would your colleagues or your customers say is your greatest and clearest strength? Your most noteworthy (as in, worthy of note) personal trait?
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Who comes first? Don’t be silly, says King Hal; it’s employees. That is – and this dear Watson, is elementary – if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
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The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Life 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.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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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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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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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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The difference between great and average is, mostly, having the imagination and zeal to re-create yourself daily.
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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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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