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
carefully designed theory work wrote
I had no idea what I was doing when I wrote 'Search.' There was no carefully designed work plan. There was no theory that I was out to prove.
hard-work effective-listening achievement
Effective listening is a professional achievement-achieved only through hard work.
motivation work numbers
You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.
work reign prototype
He who makes the quickest, coolest prototypes reigns!
work people disrespectful
Hire disrespectful people.
excellent-work excellence lines
A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
positive simple productive-work
The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
charge design dog team
My charge to the design team was for them to do the meanest, scrappiest, street-fighting dog they could sketch.
sounds
I know it sounds crazy, but you've got to let what you're going to do find you, rather than you pursuing it.
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Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women go through the apprenticeship system and learn that the goal is excellence.
layoffs
If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.
amount money paying
We'll be paying the same amount of money for tickets,
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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.
amount consulting supposed
'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a hip-pocket project that was never supposed to amount to much.