The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone. Tom Peters More Quotes by Tom Peters More Quotes From Tom Peters Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil is in the details. Tom Peters devilentrepreneurphones Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's hard not to believe people who are repeating your own ideas. Resist the temptation. Tom Peters friendsbelieveideas Communication is everyone's panacea for everything. Tom Peters good-communicationpanaceacommunication Lists simplify, clarify, edify. Tom Peters simplifylists Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for. Tom Peters careersleadershiptwo 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 importantrealsweet 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 worst-enemyprocrastinationthinking Even a poor, out-of-datecollection reflects in its own way the values of the people who created it and the community it serves. Tom Peters communitypeopleway 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 mexicogrowthreal If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there. Tom Peters clean-deskofficenuts 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 artistmenneeds Bold botches are to be cherished. Tom Peters All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer. Tom Peters congratulationsleadershipinspirational 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 flowerfunnybelieve Hire disrespectful people. Tom Peters disrespectfulworkpeople 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 changesuccessfulyesterday It's relatively simple. If we're not getting more, better, faster than they are getting more, better, faster, then we're getting less, no better or more worse. Tom Peters educationalfastersimple The common wisdom is that ... managers have to learn to motivate people. Nonsense. Employees bring their own motivation. Tom Peters motivationcommonpeople Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for e-book reading devices and other hardware. End-users most of all want a wide range and generous amount of high-quality content for free or at reasonable costs. Like end-users, libraries want quality, quantity, economy, and variety as well as flexible business models. Tom Peters readingmeanbook Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers). Tom Peters growthbookthinking
