black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

Tom Peters

As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
TOM PETERS

Halos Powerful Want
Leaders understand the ultimate power of relationships.
TOM PETERS

Inspirational Leader Ultimate
You are your projects!
TOM PETERS

Country Execution People Projects
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
TOM PETERS

Business Competition Excellence
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.
TOM PETERS

Book Growing Hallmark Parks
Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
TOM PETERS

Better Body Feel Soul
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 PETERS

Colleagues Greatest Lately Networthy
Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That’s true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.
TOM PETERS

Initiatives Manufacturing Reach Reputation
Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
TOM PETERS

Misreading Odds Persistent
The widespread availability of information is the only basis for effective day-to-day problem solving, which abets continuous improvement programs.
TOM PETERS

Abet Availability Information
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.
TOM PETERS

Decision Important Intuition More Practical Tough
What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?
TOM PETERS

Next Strategy Volunteer
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.
TOM PETERS

Business Dull Lunch
To meet the demands of the fast-changing competitive scene, we must simply learn to love change as much as we have hated it in the past.
TOM PETERS

Change Demand Past
Knowing when to take your losses is an essential part of eventual success.
TOM PETERS

Essentials Knowing Loss
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
TOM PETERS

High Levels Past Standards

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The best leaders are the best notetakers, best askers, and best learners.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Tom Peters Quotes