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Tom Peters

Leadership is about tapping the wellsprings of human motivation – and about fundamental relations with one’s fellows.
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Fundamentals Leadership Motivation
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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Leader Peter Principles
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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Misreading Odds Persistent
The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Easy Fire Wisdom Yourself
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
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Approach Growth Passive
Like it or not – and often we don’t – power is a pervasive phenomenon. From midnight decisions in the Oval Office that risk the lives of young Americans to quarrels over the kitchen table, power is part of every human equation.
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Business Country Numbers Power Risk
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Rewards Should Teamwork
Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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Careers Leadership Two
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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Learning Matter Teaching
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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Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
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Products Progress Rogues
I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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Giving Thinking Understand Years
Appreciation, applause, approval, respect – we all love it!
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Applause Appreciation Approval
The populations of most cities around the world continue to grow. The reasonspeople congregate in cities are various and complex, and the dawn of the digital age has not put much of adamper on the human urge to congregate.
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Age Cities Congregate Digital
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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Positive Productive Work Simple
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.
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Business Design Poor Process Quality

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