If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I'm about as far from being a flag-waver - you won't find any American flag pins in my drawer - as someone… — Tom Peters American flag Copy Share Image
Become a "learning organization". Shuck your arrogance - "if it isn't our idea, it can't be that good" - and become a… — Tom Peters Arrogance Copy Share Image
Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat,… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. — Tom Peters Attention Copy Share Image
The greatest difficulty in the world is not for people to accept new ideas, but to make them forget old ideas. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The number one premise of business is that it need not be boring or dull. It ought to be fun. If it's… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people. — Tom Peters Customer Copy Share Image
Some people have argued that listening to a work of literature does not really promote literacy in the same way that reading… — Tom Peters Books Copy Share Image
Quite simply, no matter how hard you try, no matter how "open" you are, you'll end up surrounded by "yes people." It's… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Today brands are everything, and all kinds of products and services - from accounting firms to sneaker makers to restaurants - are… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Champions are pioneers, and pioneers get shot at. The companies that get the most from champions, therefore, are those that have rich… — Tom Peters Business Copy Share Image
The trouble with much of the advice business gets today about the need to be more vigorously creative is that its advocates… — Tom Peters Advice Copy Share Image
'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I found myself declaiming, full flower, for an hour on the "utmost importance and urgency" of Blogging, telling him in no uncertain… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
But there's no substitute for getting smarter faster. And the way you get smarter is to screw around vigorously. Try stuff. See… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to take on any… — Tom Peters Global village Copy Share Image
If the other guy is getting better, then you'd better be getting better faster than the other guy is getting better... or… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The leaders who work most effectively, it seems to me, never say 'I'. They don't think 'I'. They think 'we'; they think… — Tom Peters Building a team Copy Share Image
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 Being Copy Share Image
Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement. — Tom Peters Change Copy Share Image
If you love your company and love what you do, you will serve your customers better-period! — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
My problem is not that I see all 17 sides of any issue, but I'm equally passionate about all 17 sides simultaneously. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Dot the i's, cross the t's, answer the phones promptly, send out errorless invoices, and in general never forget that the devil… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I don't want an epitaph on my gravestone that says, 'He would have pursued some big dreams in his life, but other… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Organize as much as possible around teams, to achieve enhanced focus, task orientation, innovativeness, and individual commitment. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Every collection reflects the ideas andvalues and interests of the individual or group who developed the collection. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Have you set high standards in the past that make it clear what level of performance you demand? — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Who, precisely, are your Dreamers? Are their Dreams in Technicolor? Do you allow their most Outrageous Dreams to be seen in public? — Tom Peters Business Copy Share Image
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies. — Tom Peters Coherence Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the first business leader who was able to establish a cult of personality around his tenure was… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I find digital content much easier and more rewarding to interact with on screen than printed on paper. — Tom Peters Digital Copy Share Image
I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there. — Tom Peters Business Copy Share Image
Make an extensive table of project 'deliverables'. Label one column 'as requested'. Create another column labeled 'could be'. Make each 'could be'… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
We're going to see leadership emerge as the most important element of business - the attribute that is highest in demand and… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation. — Tom Peters Book Copy Share Image
The best kept secret in the global economy today is this: When your service is AWESOME you get so stinking rich you… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with… — Tom Peters Bread Copy Share Image
