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Tom Peters
Tom Peters
American Businessman
Born: Nov 7, 1942
Business Change Good Me People You
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The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. Tom Peters
People Treat Employees Guests Magic Like Discovered Formula Customers Successful Successful Businesses Businesses
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing. Tom Peters
Leadership Management Nurturing Telling About Arranging Enhancing
Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else. Tom Peters
Life You Simple Big Others Else Trick Some Pretty Something Something Else More Fails Stuff Most Doing Quickly Then Works Copy
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention. Tom Peters
You Confused Attention Paying
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. Tom Peters
Positive Great People Simple Great Deal Simple Act Attention Deal Act Paying Productivity
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. Tom Peters
Business Quality Design Layout Simplification Almost Almost All Improvement Via Procedures Processes Manufacturing
Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us need to understand the importance of branding. We are CEOs of our own companies: Me, Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called You. Tom Peters
Today Me You Business Age Job Important Own Our Head Importance Most Important Job Understand Brand Happen Regardless CEOs Us Companies Need Position
Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bold large ideas. Tom Peters
Business People Passion About Small Ideas Large Bold
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too! Tom Peters
Old Too Says Follow Instead Leaders Principle Managers Stop Being Mantra Cool Conned
Communication is everyone's panacea for everything. Tom Peters
Communication Everyone Everything Panacea
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. Tom Peters
People Problems Three Community Giant Focused Thousand Thousands Some Excellence Excellent Biggest Them Companies Search
Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past. Tom Peters
Change Enthusiasm Past Energy Must Relish Winners Learn Same In The Past Resisted
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. Tom Peters
Politics Wisdom You Game People Cause Building Community Rules About Instead Support Identifying Around Passionate Very Common Different Conventional Conventional Wisdom Create Ignoring Organizing Company Grassroots Whom Playing
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any challenge. Tom Peters
Challenge South Africa Tools Take New Global Global Village Ready South Any Africa Workforce Village Eager Compete
Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct. Tom Peters
Remember Distinct Mantra Extinct
Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department. Tom Peters
Single Design Every Meeting Critical Department Agenda Should
I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too. Tom Peters
You Wonderful World Think Save The World Too Part Need Save
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. Tom Peters
Success Change World Change The World Secret Our Unlikely Ourselves Able Con Because Going Being Success Is Whole Believing
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast. Tom Peters
Business Adjust Fail Test Fast
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments. Tom Peters
People Tough Excellent Exciting Nails Simultaneously Supportive Environments Most Also Well Provide Very Bureaucratic Companies Found Things Treated Two
Good managers have a bias for action. Tom Peters
Good Action Good Managers Bias Managers
I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it. Tom Peters
Crazy You Find Rather Pursuing Know Got Sounds Than Going
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. Tom Peters
Today Become Everything Out Restaurants Kinds Boundaries Categories Makers How Narrow Surrounded Brand Accounting Brands Transcend Products Figuring Tommy Services Buzz
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented. Tom Peters
Work Single Our Project Our Lives Fact Being White-Collar Lives Reinvented
'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a hip-pocket project that was never supposed to amount to much. Tom Peters
Project Excellence Consulting Never Supposed Afterthought Litter Much Search Amount
Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune. Tom Peters
You Give Lot Expect Get Prune
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