As project chief you are creating a narrative, a story, a good yarn. If you look at the process-journey that way, you… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Momentum is a fragile force. Its worst enemy: procrastination. Its best friend: a deadline (think Election Day). Implication no. 1 (and there… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Obviously, despite hard work and heroic efforts, many dreams don't come true. But if we don't dare to dream and then throw… — Tom Peters 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 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
It boils down to studenthood-in-perpetuity / curiosity-in-perpetuity / applied fanatic restlessness. That is, a belief that life is ONE BIG LEARNING EXPERIENCE.… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
A career is a portfolio of projects that teach you new skills, gain you new expertise, develop new capabilities, grow your colleague… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The market may never coalesce around one basic design, or even around two or three dominant devices. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If, as I anticipate, a wide array of personal, portable information/communication devices becomes increasingly important and widespread for information-intensive users, it will be a… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of success are zilch. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Leaders' careers will usually be determined by their handling of one or two critical events that no one could possibly anticipate or plan for. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I don't know what it means to manage the human imagination, but I do know that imagination is the main source of value in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail big, in… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Think about the market, think about the design, and think about who is going to design for that market. Hit the mark. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“The “Excellence Standard” is not about Grand Outcomes. In Zenlike terms, all we have is today. If the day’s work cannot be assessed as… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image