Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
TOM PETERSIf you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.
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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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David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity ‘about every subject under the sun.’
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Forget loyalty. Or at least loyalty to one’s corporation. Try loyalty to your Rolodex-your network-instead.
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You can only improve what you measure.
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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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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. 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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As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
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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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Bold botches are to be cherished.
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…high end does not necessarily equal high price. It’s a matter of attitude.
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For me, reading is reading.
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
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