Words of Wisdom: Tom Peters
Tom Peters is an American business guru, author, and motivational speaker. Personally, I identify with his love of good design, rapid prototyping, and doing/getting it right. Here are some of his ideas:
- Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast
- Give a lot, expect a lot, and if you don't get it, prune
- The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity
- Design is so critical it should be on the agenda of every meeting in every single department
- There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity
- Formula for success: under promise and over deliver
- Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else
- 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
- If you're not confused, you're not paying attention
- Celebrate what you want to see more of
- Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers
- Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change
- If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade
- Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures
- If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there
- Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders
- The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and employees like people
- Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past
- If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet
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