Treat the customer as an appreciating asset.
TOM PETERSBold botches are to be cherished.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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The worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday’s turf.
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Don’t let the vision be shot through with holes, but be damn sure some of your best and brightest are shooting at it — with bazookas as well as sniper’s rifles.
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Leaders trust their guts. “Intuition” is one of those good words that has gotten a bad rap. For some reason, intuition has become a “soft” notion.
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Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence – only in constant improvement and constant change.
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The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry.
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You can’t live life without an eraser.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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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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But there’s no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See what works. See what fails miserably. Learn. Rinse. Repeat.
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Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.
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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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What gets measured gets done.
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Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
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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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Listen while you can, so that you can lead when you must.
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