Thomas J. Peters (born November 7, 1942) is an American writer on business management practices, best known for In Search of Excellence (co-authored with Robert H. Waterman Jr).
Digital ink technology holds substantial promise in terms of legibility, portability, and power consumption, but I am less confident about the communication aspect.
If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
Quality involves living the message of the possibility of perfection and infinite improvement, living it day in and day out, decade by decade.
Forget all the conventional 'rules' but one. There is one golden rule: Stick to topics you deeply care about and don't keep your passion buttoned inside your vest. An audience's biggest turn-on is the speaker's obvious enthusiasm. If you are lukewarm about the issue, forget it!
Nearly 100% of innovation-from business to politics-is inspired not by "market analysis" but by people who are supremely pissed off by the way things are.
Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pretty low.
Rewards should go to teams as a whole.
Are you placing enough interesting, freakish, long shot, weirdo bets?
The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
If future competitiveness depends on treating people as an important part of the institution, the least respectful thing I can imagine doing to a human being is asking him to urinate in a cup.
Nothing good or great can be done in the absence of enthusiasm.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Now it is much faster and cheaper to bring thedocument to the user, rather than ask the user to come to the document or collection.
MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.
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 often hear that the digital age has resulted in a devaluing of time, space, and place. But I wonder if theseclaims are exaggerated.
Swipe from the best, then adapt.
Train everyone lavishly. You can't overspend on training.
Listen to Everyone. Ideas come from everywhere
Transforming leadership, [is defined as] leadership that builds on man's need for meaning, leadership that creates institutional purpose. . . he is the value-shaper, the exemplar, the maker of meanings. . . he is the true artist, the true pathfinder.