Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
TOM PETERSFormula for success: under promise and over deliver.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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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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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Business ceases to be work when you’re chasing a dream that has engorged you. (“Work should be more fun than fun” – Noel Coward.) And if the passion isn’t there. then biotech and plumbing will be equal drags.
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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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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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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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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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
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Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
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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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