I think it’s wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
TOM PETERSHave you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
More Tom Peters Quotes
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
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Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
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The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it’s not fun, you’re wasting your life.
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We’re going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business – the attribute that is highest in demand and shortest in supply.
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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.
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The common wisdom is that … managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
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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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The world has not just “turned upside down”. It is turning in every which way at an accelerating pace.
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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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The day firing becomes easy is the day to fire yourself.
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Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies.
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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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Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand?
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Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
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