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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My charge to the design team was for them to do the meanest, scrappiest, street-fighting dog they could sketch.
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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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The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think 'team'.
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Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
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Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment.
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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.
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Gandhi and Mandela and Churchill and JFK and Reagan and Thatcher and Sarkozy and Franklin and Washington set the tone to an incredible degree-their "personal style" was their "brand." ("It" starts with personal style of the tip-top leadership team. Sorry to be politically insensitive, but who would give a hoot about Tibet if it weren't for the look and style of the Dalai Lama?) Boss at any level: You're either on the "it" boat-or not.
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Divas do it, golfers do it, pilots do it, violists do it, sprinters do it, soldiers do it, surgeons do it, astronauts do it...only business people think it isn't necessary to train.
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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.
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We'll be paying the same amount of money for tickets,
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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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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It's amazed me that no one has ever tried to do this before.
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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.