Become a “learning organization”. Shuck your arrogance – “if it isn’t our idea, it can’t be that good” – and become a determined copycat/ adapter/ enhancer.
TOM PETERSCelebrate what you want to see more of.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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Cost does not equal value… and low cost parts decrease brand equity for a very long time.
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Sorry, but those are two of the most profoundly upsetting questions anyone can ask – upsetting because the answer should be obvious: Do what turns you on, not what the statistics say is best.
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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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Fact is, the work place to a great extent is “where we live.” We need star accountants. Boffo saleswomen. Over-the-top creatives in marketing and new product development.
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You are your projects!
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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement.
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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?
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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TRUST, not technology, is the issue of the decade.
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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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The dominant culture in most big companies demands punishment for a mistake, no matter how useful, small, invisible.
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Entrepreneurs have no memories. They take on the world with a completely fresh view.
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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.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Oh Lord, there it is again. The question;” What kind of business should I start?” Incidentially, it has a twin that also sets me off: “What should I specialize in during the second year of my MBA studies?”
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