Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, ‘Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.’ Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
TOM PETERSThe idea of intimately entwining with customers [to get ideas] is an idea whose time has come.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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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.
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Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our strategy. Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?
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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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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
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What gets measured gets done.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
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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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Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
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Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves.
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Make an extensive table of project ‘deliverables’. Label one column ‘as requested’. Create another column labeled ‘could be’. Make each ‘could be’ wild and woolly!
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Mistakes are life. Mistakes are not to be tolerated…they are to be encouraged. The bigger the better.
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Success requires a persistent misreading of the odds.
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All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
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I don’t want the 35-year-olds in my audience to think of me as as ‘pops’ giving the kind of advice that only 65-year-olds can understand.
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How do you achieve excellence?…Stop doing non-excellent stuff!
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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
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I used to be skeptical when educators and technologists predicted that we may be entering a new era of oral culture, in which audible information will be at least as important as visible information.
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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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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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Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services – from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants – are figuring out how to transcend the narrow boundaries of their categories and become a brand surrounded by a Tommy Hilfiger-like buzz.
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Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind – and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are set off, connections made, insights triggered
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He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
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Swipe from the best, then adapt.
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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?
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South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village – an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge.
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