Smile if it kills you. The physiology of smiling diffuses a lot of anger and angst. It makes your body and soul feel better.
TOM PETERSDivas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it…only business people think it isn’t necessary to train.
More Tom Peters Quotes
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The top athletes are consummate pros who work obsessively at their craft. Approach yours the same way.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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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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Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.
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Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading does.
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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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One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.
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Leaders’ careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
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What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
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Lists simplify, clarify, edify.
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If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you’re nuts to stay there.
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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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The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we’re going to change the world because statistically we are unlikely to do it.
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The company’s most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand – innovation from everyone.
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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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