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
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Brand inside is more important than brand outside for sustained success.
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Formula for success: Underpromise and overachieve.
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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.
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The winners stun us not by their cleverness, but by the fact that every tiny aspect of the business is just a touch better than the norm.
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Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.
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If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
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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.
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It's amazed me that no one has ever tried to do this before.
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It seems hard to believe in May that my wife and two kids will go to a game until 10:30 p.m., ... and then try to make the 7 a.m. school bus the next day.
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I started out with the Big Brothers program and then went to the American Cancer Society, where I was eventually the national vice president. I'm a mission kind of guy. The Red Cross was an easy mission to embrace, like Chevrolet and apple pie.
Now that we have this opportunity, we need to get with the program. (We've) no idea how long it will last,
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This league will effectively become a glorified high school and independent league.
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C6 has exposed the headlamps for the first time since 1962, and believe me, there was a lot of emotional discussion around that,
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I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.