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
interesting long risk
Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
business training train
Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.
trying experts screw-ups
In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything.
integrity may littles
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
teaching reform conformity
We must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.
teaching learning matter
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
enthusiasm done absence
Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm.
perfection excellence quality
Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
innovation demand tasks
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
motivation mean cutting
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
impact labels tables
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!
leadership sorry team
Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.
leadership careers two
Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for.
leadership curiosity important
Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to the end.' David Ogilvy contends that the greatest ad copywriters are marked by an insatiable curiosity 'about every subject under the sun.'