Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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More Tom Peters Quotes
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
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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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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their “personal style” was their “brand.” (“It” starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team.
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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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What gets measured gets done.
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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good – similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.
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Hire disrespectful people.
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With most competitors moving ever faster, the race will go to those who listen (and respond) most intently.
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