WORK ON YOUR STORY! He/she who has the best story wins! In life! In business! The White House! — Tom Peters Business 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
I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is finally reaching the offices and cubicles… — Tom Peters Blue Copy Share Image
I urge you to set a tough, quantitative target for adding "differentiators" as I call them, to every service you provide. — Tom Peters Goals Copy Share Image
The race will go to the curious, the slightly mad, and those with an un-satiated passion for learning and dare-deviltry. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Ready, fire, aim. Do it! Make it happen! Action counts. No one ever sat their way to success. — Tom Peters Action Copy Share Image
The 'value added' for most any company, tiny or enormous, comes from the Quality of Experience provided. — Tom Peters Business 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… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of… — Tom Peters Belief Copy Share Image
Power lies in the details, and the tenacious pursuit of such hidden levers can pay off enormously. While you don't want to… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Something mysterious happens to a curious, fully engaged mind - and it happens as often as not, subconsciously. Strange little sparks are… — Tom Peters Connections Copy Share Image
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 Chiefs Copy Share Image
To grasp organizational life as it is, read novels (!) … It is my fervent belief that we will never design rational… — Tom Peters Belief Copy Share Image
If there is a single tragic flaw that mars our biggest enterprises, it is conservatism - the failure to fail, and fail… — Tom Peters Ambiguity 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
Musing on the phrase 'waste of time.' So much more complex than it appears. Many 'wastes of time' small talk, daydreaming are… — Tom Peters Complexes Copy Share Image
Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the… — Tom Peters Analysis Copy Share Image
I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
When you choose a managerial path, you are choosing to devote your life to people. Period. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that… — Tom Peters 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
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
Without exception, the dominance and coherence of culture proved to be an essential quality of the excellent companies. — Tom Peters Coherence 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
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
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
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
Passion. The life of an entrepreneur is occasionally exhilarating, and almost always exhausting. Only unbridled passion for the concept is likely to… — Tom Peters Business Copy Share Image
