If the person you delegated to does the job twice as well as you would have done it, consider yourself a leader.
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More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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We often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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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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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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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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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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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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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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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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