The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
TOM PETERSAll white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
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The principal reason, invariably, most “successful” giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact,
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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 whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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Formula for success: under promise and over deliver.
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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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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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Hire attitude train skills.
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For me, reading is reading.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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