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Celebrate what you want to see more of.
Tom Peters
New Year's, Celebrate
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Tom Peters
Leadership, Down, Window
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters
Business, Design, Almost
Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
Tom Peters
Leadership, Management, Telling
Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
Tom Peters
Leaders, Create, Followers
If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
Tom Peters
Confused, Attention, Paying
Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
Tom Peters
Fail, Test, Fast
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters
Change, Excellent, Excellence
Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune.
Tom Peters
Give, Expect, Prune
As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that rubs off on you.
Tom Peters
Powerful, Off, Whose
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
Tom Peters
Great, Positive, Simple
Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
Tom Peters
Able, Vision, Company
We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
Tom Peters
Two, Tough, Found
Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.
Tom Peters
Communication, Everything, Everyone
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
Tom Peters
Politics, Wisdom, Game
Good managers have a bias for action.
Tom Peters
Good, Action, Bias
I think it's wonderful to save the world, but you need to be part of the world, too.
Tom Peters
Wonderful, Save
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
Tom Peters
Change, Great, Enough
Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.
Tom Peters
Remember, Distinct, Extinct
Stop being conned by the old mantra that says, 'Leaders are cool, managers are dweebs.' Instead, follow the Peters Principle: Leaders are cool. Managers are cool too!
Tom Peters
Cool, Old, Stop
The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.
Tom Peters
Best, Almost, Leaders
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people.
Tom Peters
Successful, Treat, Magic
A passive approach to professional growth will leave you by the wayside.
Tom Peters
Leave, Growth, Approach
All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and customer.
Tom Peters
Success, Business, Company
All white-collar work is project work. The single salient fact that touches all of our lives is that work is being reinvented.
Tom Peters
Work, Single, Fact

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Nationality: American
Born: November 7, 1942

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