Thomas J. Peters > Quotes

“An effective leader must be the master of two ends of the spectrum: ideas at the highest level of abstraction and actions at the most mundane level of detail.”
― Thomas J. Peters, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

“The art of creative leadership is the art of institution building, the reworking of human and technological materials to fashion an organism that embodies new and enduring values.”
― Thomas J. Peters, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

“Therefore”
― Thomas J. Peters, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

“Such skill building”
― Thomas J. Peters, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

“your position”
― Thomas J. Peters, The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence

“Chronic use of the military metaphor leads people repeatedly to overlook a different kind of organization”
― Thomas J. Peters, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

“Working on your R.POV8 is far more important than any “strategic planning” exercise!)”
― Thomas J. Peters, The Little Big Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence

“I think an inflexible organization chart which assumes that anyone in a given position will perform exactly the same way his predecessor did”
― Thomas J. Peters, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

“Our research told us that any intelligent approach to organizing had to encompass”
― Thomas J. Peters, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

“Weick suggests that organizations learn and adapt v-e-r-y slowly. They pay obsessive attention to habitual internal cues”
― Thomas J. Peters, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

“Fletcher Byrom’s ninth commandment: “Make sure you generate a reasonable number of mistakes.”
― Thomas J. Peters, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies

“The excellent companies are both centralized and decentralized. For the most part”
― Thomas J. Peters, In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies