Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
TOM PETERSIf a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library.
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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch.
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Don’t ‘tolerate’ mistakes. Embrace them!
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Customers perceive service in their own unique, idiosyncratic, emotional, irrational, end-of-the-day, and totally human terms. Perception is all there is!
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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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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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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.
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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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We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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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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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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I’m fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies – in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.
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Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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