American - Businessman | November 7, 1942 -
Good managers have a bias for action.
Tom Peters
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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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One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.
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If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.
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Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch.
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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
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Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
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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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Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department.
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I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.
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Statistically and emotionally, I believe that the way I can be of help to society is by doing what I know and what I've been good at.
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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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