Hire disrespectful people.
TOM PETERSThe top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Business is about people. It’s about passion. It’s about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas.
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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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Dot the i’s, cross the t’s, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details.
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The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you have to buy new bags to carry all the money home.
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Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to see you through the 17-hour days (month after month) and the painful mistakes that are part and parcel of the start-up process.
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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 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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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
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Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there is no no. 2): Get to work! NOW!
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You are your projects!
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If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period!
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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The idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
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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.
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