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?
TOM PETERSWhat 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?
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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What gets measured gets done.
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Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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For me, reading is reading.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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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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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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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 dumbest mistake is viewing design as something you do at the end of the process to ‘tidy up’ the mess, as opposed to understanding it’s a ‘day one’ issue and part of everything.
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Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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