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
kings business silly
Who comes first? Don't be silly, says King Hal; it's employees. That is - and this dear Watson, is elementary - if you genuinely want to put customers first, you must put employees more first.
team commitment focus
Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.
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!
motivation mean cutting
Confidence means non-paralysis, a willingness to act, and act decisively, to start new things and cut failing ventures off.
innovation demand tasks
The company's most urgent task is to learn to welcome, beg for, demand - innovation from everyone.
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.
enthusiasm done absence
Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm.
teaching learning matter
Learning is a matter of intensity not elapsed time.
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.
teamwork spiritual winning
Stellar teams are invariably made up of quirky individuals who typically rub each other raw, but they figure out - with the spiritual help of a gifted leader - how to be their peculiar selves and how to win championships as a team...at the same time.
integrity may littles
Integrity may be about little things as much or more than big ones.
attitude skills train
Hire for attitude. Train for skill... More
believe long waiting
The most important and visible outcropping of the action bias in excellent companies is their willingness to try things out, to experiment. If you wait until you believe you are safe, sure to be without occasional foolish feelings, you've most likely waited too long.
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.