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
layoffs
If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.
glorified high league school
This league will effectively become a glorified high school and independent league.
believe discussion emotional exposed since time
C6 has exposed the headlamps for the first time since 1962, and believe me, there was a lot of emotional discussion around that,
assistance disaster fact goal human increased people proud recently recruit resources services team three
I'm most proud of the fact that we've increased our Disaster Assistance Team from three to 50 people. We recently set a goal to recruit 100 more people to be on the Disaster Services Human Resources Team that can be called out of the area.
book has-beens
Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.
class agendas alive
There's nobody in the world that wouldn't change places with the Americans. The economy is phenomenally large, the entrepreneurial class is very alive and very well, the universities, despite budget problems, still turn out something like 90 percent of the refereed academic and technical articles in the world. There's a lot on everybody's agenda.
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.
believe book thinking
I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.
believe age internet
I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.
thinking needs world
I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
important
What you decide not to do is probably more important that what you decide to do.
opportunity doors knocking
OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.
people world pissed-off
Only pissed-off people change the world.