Tom Peters Quotes - Page 9

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• Skill at creating, exploiting, and exiting crucial alliances beats ownership of fixed assets

  Tom Peters

  Skills, Creating, Alliances

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• Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?

  Tom Peters

  Attitude, Lines, Today

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• As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was Lee Iacocca.

  Tom Peters

  Cult Of Personality, Leader, Able

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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?" 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.

  Tom Peters

  Sorry, Business, Years

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.22, Vintage

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• If timing ain't everything, it's damn close

  Tom Peters

  Timing, Damn, Ifs

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• Take someone NEW AND WEIRD to lunch today

  Tom Peters

  Lunch, Today

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• I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper.

  Tom Peters

  Paper, Digital, Easier

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.

  Tom Peters

  Giving, Prunes, Ifs

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• A little (or more) boat burning would do many enterprises a world of good.

  Tom Peters

  Burning, World, Littles

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• Print-based libraries developed in an age of scarce printed resources.

  Tom Peters

  Age, Library, Resources

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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• Good managers have a bias for action.

  Tom Peters

  Prejudice, Action, Management

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• Accept change as a friend. And don't take yourself too seriously.

  Tom Peters

  Change, Accepting, Accepting Change

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• Authority never matches responsibility. That's one of the great myths and delusions of all times. Winning managers and individual performers at all levels know that effectiveness means building your own network and creating your own authority. Those who succeed always reach far beyond formal deputation, take initiatives, and take the heat when things go awry. That's true in the military in times of war, true for 200 person manufacturing firms, and true at giant automakers or software companies.

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  Military, War, Mean

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• Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.

  Tom Peters

  Communication, Panacea, Good Communication

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• Lists simplify, clarify, edify.

  Tom Peters

  Lists, Simplify

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.164, Knopf

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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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  Leadership, Careers, Two

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• My real bottom-line hypothesis is that nobody has a sweet clue what they’re doing. Therefore you better be trying stuff at an insanely rapid pace. You want to be screwing around with nearly everything. Relentless experimentation was probably important in the 1970s-now it’s do or die.

  Tom Peters

  Sweet, Real, Important

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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!

  Tom Peters

  Procrastination, Thinking, Worst Enemy

  Tom Peters (1999). “The Project50 (Reinventing Work): Fifty Ways to Transform Every "Task" into a Project That Matters!”, p.89, Knopf

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• If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there.

  Tom Peters

  Nuts, Office, Clean Desk

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• I'm fundamentally not interested in the Fortune 500 companies - in US, Mexico, anywhere. The real backbones of economic growth are small and medium businesses.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Growth, Mexico

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• Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose ... he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings ... he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.

  Tom Peters

  Artist, Men, Needs

  "In Search of Excellence". Book by Tom Peters and Robert H. Waterman, Jr., 1982.

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• Bold botches are to be cherished.

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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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  Inspirational, Leadership, Congratulations

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• I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain terms that, especially in a high-end niche business, Blogging is "the premier way" to have "intimate conversations" with his Clients. Funny thing, I believe it!

  Tom Peters

  Funny, Believe, Flower

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• The principal reason, invariably, most "successful" giant companies rather quickly become also-rans, or just amorphous blobs on the competitive landscape, is their failure to re-tool in anything like a fundamental way. In fact, the worse things get, typically, the more they dig in their heels and defend yesterday's turf.

  Tom Peters

  Change, Successful, Yesterday

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