Tom Peters
Tom Peters
Thomas J. "Tom" Petersis an American writer on business management practices, best known for In Search of Excellence...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth7 November 1942
CountryUnited States of America
quality care products
How do you humiliate and demean someone and then expect him or her to care about product quality.
attitude today lines
Have you thanked a front-line employee for carrying around a great attitude ... today?
creativity thinking creative
The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates often fail to distinguish between creativity and innovation. Creativity is thinking up new things. Innovation is doing new things... The shortage is of innovators...
doors innovation havoc
We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
motivation people common
The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation.
perception human-nature force
The drive for control, or the perception thereof, is truly the strongest force in human nature.
years world today
The manager, in today's world, doesn't get paid to be a steward of resources, a favored term not so many years ago. He or she gets paid for one and only one thing: to make things better (incrementally and dramatically), to change things, to act - today.
progress rogues products
Progress is mostly the product of rogues.
leader matter stuff
Leaders do stuff that matters.
unthinkable thinkable
The unthinkable is thinkable. No: likely.
flags american-flag pins
I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone can be.
reading names chinese
The Chinese are quite entrepreneurial. Remember when Lenovo bought IBM's PC division. It was said that China didn't need a brand name, China didn't need to buy Lenovo to get into the PC business, I remember reading a one-liner somewhere which struck me as quite possibly true, it said the one thing that the Chinese had not been able to copy or figure out was the way, in terms of systems, that Americans - it probably would be true for Europeans as well - that Americans install and live by their management systems, while China is still quite half-assed. Perhaps that is a true statement.
carefully designed theory work wrote
I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.
equally
My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously.