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3 years

The intense Arizona election audit confirmed Biden won and even extended his margin. The next day, at a rally, Donald Trump said that the recount proved he won the state. That is waaaaay beyond “a lie”—what would you call it?

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Farewell. I joined Jack Dorsey’s Twitter in December 2008. I have enjoyed virtually every Twitter-minute in the subsequent 15+ years. But the time has come to say goodbye. I cannot allow myself to be in any way connected to an Elon Musk venture. Musk’s vigorous support for a

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I have thought deeply, and I believe Arpaio pardon is most unAmerican presidential act I have experienced in my 50+ years of adulthood.

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3 years

People don’t realize, but it took 40+ years to write this single page. (Slightly enhanced version comes next.)

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7 years

The sole concern of Google and Facebook is to convert the most intimate details in your life into revenue. A few billion bucks of Zuckerbergian philanthropy does not offset the catastrophic human damage caused by his life-dessicating invention.

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4 years

Didn’t realize what a shitstorm I’d stir up by reporting on research that concludes that men on average interrupt more than women, talk more and longer than women, etc. Such assertions bring out the asshole in the assholes.

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3 years

I am not an asset. I am not a human resource. I am not overhead. I am not an expense. I am not a cost center. Training me is not an expense. I do not belong on the liability side of the balance sheet. I am Tom. And Tom says, words matter, clean up your language, starting Monday.

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Tom Peters

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9 years

Berkshire vs KKR. " http://t.co/PCZIcz1X7o"

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Tom Peters

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7 years

"Speed is everything in 2018" total bullshit: Relationships take time. Recruiting allies to your cause takes time. Reading/studying take time. Practice & prep take time. MBWA takes time. Thoughtfulness/small gestures take time. "The last 10%" takes time. EXCELLENCE takes time.

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4 years

Today is my 78th birthday. I have just gotten the best birthday present of all.

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4 years

I’ve thought a lot about the following. My Top 2 post-coronavirus dreams: (1) Never again a promotion of anyone to management who does not have a truckload of empathy (high EQ) & a demonstrated “PEOPLE FIRST” track record. (2) More more more women in senior leadership roles ASAP.

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Tom Peters

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5 years

Zuckerberg quote in Vanity Fair May 2019 article: "You can be unethical and still be legal that's the way I live my life."

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Tom Peters

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4 years

My last 43 years. One page. The Excellence Twelve

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6 years

Research suggests introverts have this weird habit of thinking before they open their mouths.

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5 years

“Soft” skills will be 10X more important in a virtual/work-at-home world. Team dynamics, individual growth, team creativity will dominate effectiveness.

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5 years

I guess my best definition of a great manager is that she/he is literally desperate to have each of their team members succeed and grow. (Word "desperate" chosen with great care.)

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Tom Peters

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3 years

This insane person must truly hate the United States of America. Right?

Sidney Powell Claims Trump 'Can Simply Be Reinstated'

Trump "should definitely get the remainder of his term and make the best of it," the attorney said Saturday at a "For God & Country Patriot Roundup" conference in Dallas.

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Tom Peters

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5 years

Gonna write ultimate ldrshp book/5 sentences total: (1) Permanently carry positve attitude—especially when dodo hits the fan. (2) Outwork every other human being. (3) You never understand more than 7.4% of any other human being. (4) Your judgement sucks. (5) Give a shit. Always.

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5 years

YOU ARE THE BOSS. YOU ARE NOT RUNNING A CHARITY. YOUR MOTTO IS SHAPE UP OR SHIP OUT. WELL, LET ME SORT YOU OUT. IF YOUR EMPLOYEES TAKE NO JOY FROM THEIR WORK AND THEIR WORKPLACE AND ARE NOT GROWING DAILY, YOU ARE AN INCOMPETENT SHIT. THINK ABOUT IT ON EASTER DAY PLEASE.

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Tom Peters

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3 years

@timothyjkolb I hate this tweet. Why? It scared the shit out of me.

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5 years

Positiv 30X greater than negative 2 of 2.

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Tom Peters

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6 years

I am head over heels in love with this quote by Dee Dee Myers: "I am endlessly fascinated that playing football is considered a training ground for leadership, but raising children isn't."

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Tom Peters

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8 years

A major party candidate declaring before the fact a rigged election is the single-most unpatriotic act of my lifetime.

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Tom Peters

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4 years

Amazing as it may seem, it appears that Trump was a worse businessman than he is a President.

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1 year

I am 80 and 8 months. I’ve had it. Quit screwing around. Irrevocably outlaw the term “human resources. It is demeaning and disgusting. It literally nauseates me.

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Tom Peters

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3 years

Make these 5 quotes your mantra, and the world will pretty much be your oyster.

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Tom Peters

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6 years

This is the meat of an article to soon be posted at . I think it is important, in fact very important. I hope you will take it aboard, discuss it, and share it far and wide!

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Tom Peters

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4 years

Facebook: "Our algorithms exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness." WSJ: "If left unchecked, Facebook would feed users more and more divisive content in an effort to gain user attention/increase time on platform." (Call it profit maximization via anger maximization.)

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Tom Peters

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1 month

I’m back. My most trusted friends/ colleagues convinced me I can do my best for causes I care about (e.g., Harris/Walz, People FIRST, Inspiring Design, Women-in-Charge) when I am plugged in here; I will continue to hold monumental negative feelings about X’s owner, but stay

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4 years

@chadloder Chris David is my hero. A former U.S. Navy Seabee, as was I decades ago. This is awful. He was doing nothing but standing unaggressively. What a bunch of unprincipled thugs those federal officers are. Our nation teeters on the edge ...

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Tom Peters

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4 years

Any exceptionally successful person who does not think that good luck is the #1 factor in their success is a pitiful creature.

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Tom Peters

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7 years

Just read a piece that said "most important skill" a founder should have is "sales." Shit like that makes me ill. Most important skill a founder needs is to create a fabulous product or service worth selling. PERIOD.

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Tom Peters

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3 years

I want to teach a complete MBA marketing course some year. It would be fully certified & only require 15 seconds of students’ time. I would walk into the classroom, look out at the students, and say: “(1) Women buy everything. (2) Old people have all the money.” Class dismissed.

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Tom Peters

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6 years

Bloody management gurus (myself included)!!!!! De facto ZERO attention to family businesses. Family businesses USA: 64% GDP. 62% total employment. 78% new job creation. 0.0001% of management literature. (Note:Estimate in last sentence may be too high.)

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Tom Peters

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3 years

You like strategy. I like execution. You like big gestures. I like small gestures. You worry about disruption. I worry about the next five minutes. You like systems. I like people. You like to “tell it like it is.” I like kindness. ...

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Tom Peters

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4 years

Do not “read” this article by Adam Grant. MEMORIZE IT. “Who won’t shut up in meetings? Men say it’s women. It’s not.”

Perspective | Who won’t shut up in meetings? Men say it’s women. It’s not.

“Manologues,” “mansplaining” and “manterrupting” are hallmarks of the conference room.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@LarryDJonesJr A world where the “left” and “right” peacefully and gracefully coexisst. (I.e., pre Voldemort.)

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Tom Peters

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3 years

Today’s marketing tip: Women buy EVERYTHING. Old folks have ALL the money. How many women over age 50 in your marketing department? In your product design department?

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Tom Peters

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6 years

I am only 75, but I have never yet had a plan yet about what to do next. E.g., "career plan" is a great way to stifle serendipity!

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Tom Peters

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4 years

Leaders do not earn their pay by having the right answers. They earn their pay by (1) pulling together a great group of people ... and then by (2) asking the most probing questions.

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Tom Peters

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7 years

Some gurus want to help giant companies get better at playing numbers games. I want to help 500,000 small busineeses do great work so that they can each add 2 people to their payroll--and create 1,000,000 new jobs in the process!

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Tom Peters

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6 years

An organization, no matter how "technologically transformed," is at the end of the day no more/no less than: PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE. (And as leader, your job is: SERVE THE PEOPLE WHO SERVE THE PEOPLE.) (One last thing: the people we serve are our Customers AND our Communities.)

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Tom Peters

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6 years

I get very nervous about mindless acceptance of the power of stories and storytelling. Storytelling is also a [very] dangerous weapon. A good story can lead people en masse to accept conclusions that fly in the face of incontrovertible hard data.

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Tom Peters

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7 years

Win: Act now. Aim low. Think small. Never go negative. Thank you. I'm sorry. What do you think? MBWA Cognitive bias is omnipresent. Hard is soft/Soft is hard. Relationships take time. Excellence is the only standard. Excellence is the next email. Excellence is the next 5 minutes.

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Tom Peters

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7 years

Big airline CEOs should be put in a bus, taken to an airport, and required to fly around the world in center seat coach.

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4 years

Reading mindboggling stuff about the share of whites who do not think the have had the benefits of white priviledge. Certifiably insane. My two greatest “success factors” by a wide margin are being born (1) white and (2) male.

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Tom Peters

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6 years

A boss who is even 30 seconds late to a team meeting is rude and disrespectful of his employees.

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Tom Peters

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4 years

The best reason to put people first is not to create a "great organization." The best reason to put people first is so you can be proud of how you spent your life; namely, helping others grow as persons as well as professionals.

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Tom Peters

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4 years

Only one answer to “how to lead in a crisis”: LEAD WELL BEFORE THE CRISIS. That means creating a team whose members are deeply respected as individuals, have been trained beyond one’s wildest imagination, are given exceptional autonomy, and who care deeply about one another.

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Tom Peters

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6 years

Looking at the biz book section in B&N. Hundreds of books promising transformation and beating the shit out of the competition. I'm tempted to write a book titled, "The Anti-Transformation Guide: Some Pretty Simple Stuff to Try That Might Help You Get a Little Bit Better."

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Tom Peters

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4 years

I wonder if there is even one business school on earth that puts people ahead of finance?

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5 years

5 seconds. As good as it gets.

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Tom Peters

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6 years

Coming [very] soon. An 819-slide PP that covers “everything.” (298 of the slides are 20K+ words of explanatory commentary.) Derived from The Excellence Dividend, this is everything-I’ve-learned-in-the-last-50-years. Enjoy. Reflect. Steal!!!!!!!

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Tom Peters

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7 years

My 2 favorite strategy quotes: (1) Omar Bradley, "Amateurs talk about strategy, professionals talk about logistics." (2) Jack Welch on definition of strategy, "Pick a general direction--and implement like hell."

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Tom Peters

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5 years

Sunday morning, time for calm & reflection. But I’m uneasy. Read 2 articles on how billionaires are upset as they contemplate a less hyperwealth-friendly political future. I weep for them. Yikes, distresed billionaires. I shall pray for them this Sunday morn. [sarcasm alert]

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Tom Peters

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6 years

Why do I keep doing what I do? 40 yrs! ENOUGH! But fury keeps me going. Read several studies. 70% or 85% or 87% of workers dislike their job/are disengaged. THAT IS A HORRID CONDEMNATION OF MANAGERS/LEADERS. (And of the ineffectiveness of those of us trying to fix the problem.)

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Tom Peters

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4 years

Friend left a good job in tough times because of a lousy boss. Complex setting and friend wanted to increase her workplace knowledge. Boss took it as a personal threat to her job and was perpetually snide about it. Lesson: Never promote insecure people into managerial roles.

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Tom Peters

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4 years

Speaking as a former long-time Vermonter, ho hum. Bernie has never proposed anything that is doable. As of my departure from VT, Bernie had accomplished zero in his career other than to be in favor of “good things.”

Bernie Sanders' $15 Minimum Wage Amendment Fails in Senate

In a fiery speech on the floor, Sanders called it "disgraceful" that Congress hasn't raised the minimum wage since 2007.

www.newsweek.com

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1 year

FYI …

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Tom Peters

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2 years

I’m sure it’s ego talking, but given my age, 80, I was pleased to still rank #3 among Global Gurus “World’s Top 30 Management Professionals for 2023.”

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Tom Peters

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6 years

Yes, this REALLY REALLY REALLY is a “must read.” Don’t think there’s as much as a semi-colon I disagree with. “When You Get That Wealthy, You Start to Buy Your Own Bullshit”: The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg | Vanity Fair

The Miseducation of Sheryl Sandberg

Harvard Business School invented the “leadership” industry—and produced a generation of corporate monsters. No wonder Sandberg, one of the school’s most prominent graduates, lacks a functioning moral...

www.vanityfair.com

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Tom Peters

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3 months

@NashIsHere4It This defies a response. I read, reread, rereread, trying to find some teeny weeny sign of human life …. (My abject apologies if anyone thinks I am mocking the horrid disease dementia. )

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Tom Peters

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2 months

All you need to know about leadership (almost “no kidding”)

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Tom Peters

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7 years

Excellence is your next email. Excellence is a smile. Excellence is bringing flowers to work on a dreary winter morning. Excellence is the essence of short-termism. Excellence is the next 5 minutes--or it is nothing at all.

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3 months

My life. 45 years. 45 words

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6 years

So sad/tragic/stupid. Dartmouth MA. Barnes & Ignoble. Approx $125 of books under my arm. 1230PM. Line of 9. ONE register open. Put books down, walk out. Three of the books new to me. Out to my car in parking lot. Order from Amazon in about 90 seconds. Repeat: Sad. Tragic. Stupid.

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Tom Peters

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4 years

Some will take offense at this and I don’t give a damn. All the stuff we’re talking about is mostly male bullshit. The world really would be a better place if women were in charge. I sincerely believe that.

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Tom Peters

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7 years

How to be good leader: LISTEN. How to be good salesperson: LISTEN. How to be good negotiator: LISTEN. How to be good parent/spouse: LISTEN.

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6 years

People who don't get off on helping people as a matter of course should never be promoted into any position of leadership. Ever.

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Tom Peters

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7 years

If you don't believe that training is Asset #1 , ask an admiral, general, police chief, fire chief, orchestra conductor, football coach, archery coach, movie director, actor [age 22 or 62], prima ballerina, surgeon, ER or ICU chief or nurse, nuclear power plant operator ... or me.

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Tom Peters

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4 years

CV19 Leadership/The Seven Commandments: Be Kind. Be Caring. Be Patient. Be Forgiving. Be Present. Be Positive. Walk in the Other Person’s Shoes. (Your actions right now will define your professional career.)

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Tom Peters

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2 years

Pulitzer for a paragraph?

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Tom Peters

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6 years

"Agile Consultant" arrives. Demands prepayment. Pockets $10K check. Walks up to blackboard. Writes, "Cut the bullshit. Try some shit." Walks out. Goes to bank. Deposits check.

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1 year

I want to start a full-fledged, no bullshit campaign to ban the use of the term “human resources,” or its shorthand “HR..” I am “Tom,” I am NOT a “human resource.” Wanna help me design and execute an online campaign launch party?

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Tom Peters

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5 years

In 2020, I would rather hire a theater major or fine arts major for a leadership slot than an engineer or MBA (Please read The Fuzzy and the Techy.)

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4 years

I bend over backwards to keep politics out of my remarks, but it would be totally irresponsible to not call POTUS out on his deadly CV19 behavior, hour after hour, tweet after tweet. On Good Friday, I weep for my beloved country, the country I gladly defended in Vietnam.

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6 years

Women as leaders. Women tend to be more inclusive. Women tend to be better listeners. Women tend to use "we" more than "I." Women tend to care less about hierarchies. Women tend to share credit. (FYI: Effective leadership is a "'we' business.")

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Tom Peters

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4 years

Presentation anxiety! If you are about to give speech/presentation & have conquered “presentation anxiety,” cancel speech/presentation. If no presentation anxiety, you are on verge of giving a shitty speech. I suffer from extreme presentation anxiety—if it goes away, I’ll retire.

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Tom Peters

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4 years

When hiring, always ask about outside work passions. Wildly successful midsize CEO friend says he won’t hire anyone with no outside interests. “I don’t care if it’s stamp collecting, knitting or 18th century French literature. I want some significant sign of breadth/curiosity.”

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4 years

I am mesmerized. Reading Compassionomics: The Revolutionary Scientific Evidence That Caring Makes a Difference. Hardnosed quant research. But my point: this healthcare book is NOT a healthcare book. It’s leadership book—applies universally. THIS BOOK IS A MUST FOR EVERY LEADER.

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4 years

I read a lot of shit about “your work team is not your ‘family.’l Utter bullshit. It is a group of people you care deeply about (or you shouldn’t be in any form of leadership position EVER) and spend more time with than your “real” family.

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Tom Peters

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5 years

Dear friends, on a trip to London I had a medical incident that will result in knee replacement surgery. I am mostly doing extreme pre-sugical prep and as a result have not been tweeting. Cheers, tom

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6 years

What if I said this is the most important article you'll read this year? "5-Hour Rule: If you’re not spending 5 hours per week learning, you’re being irrespons…” by @michaeldsimmons

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4 years

Will I lose some followers by speaking my mind about POTUS? My God, I hope so.

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5 years

Even if you are a confirmed atheist, please take 30 seconds several times a day to offer a prayer for our front-line healthcare providers. They signed up to be in harm’s way—but not for this level of harm.

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6 years

Financial Times labeled The Excellence Dividend a "shouty book." I liked that so much I've added it to my official bio. Fact is, I've been shoutin'--in print & in person--about the obvious, such as People Really First, for 35+ years. Why stop now? Shouty I shall be until the end!

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6 years

Remember: "Three things are important in human life. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind."--Henry James (Quote is not by Elon Musk.) (And the fourth is not to be an arrogant hot dog shit regarding the Thai rescue.)

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Tom Peters

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4 years

Capitalization makes me leery. When six sigma become Six Sigma, when lean becomes Lean. When agile becomes Agile. And when they get their own trainers (Agile Trainer). They become de facto Religions (cap R).

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4 years

Shameless self-promo: I have new/short ebook out. I have major hardback coming out in 2 weeks. I have 6-part, 198-video training course in process of being released. These are my CV19 products, and my “last hurrah.” Hope you will partake, and if you like ‘em, tell your friends!

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4 years

Approachability has nothing to do with smiling. It has everything to do with giving a shit about the other person.

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4 years

I am so jealous of Dr Fauci. Being called a "disaster" by POTUS is the highest honor an American can receive.

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7 years

"Disruptionitis" is a disease. The frenzy syndrome. Civilization per se and Excellence are about continuity, care, community, relationships. Don't be victimized by Silicon Valley bullshit. Take your time.

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5 years

Received email with analysis from source of greatest repute not given to hyperbole. In short, she said next 2 weeks are critical, and that we should all de facto self-isolate for the good of our families and, actually more important, in fairness to strangers. I intend to comply.

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Tom Peters

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3 years

My MBA grad speech: Your job is growth. Not rev/profit growth. People growth. Every person working for you should grow dramatically due to your leadership. Put moral behavior 1st. Only deliver products/services that make the world a wee bit better. (Do this, profit will follow.)

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7 years

I want to found a new "top" business school. Grads will sign agreement not to work on Wall Street or the giant consultancies. Whaddyathink?

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4 years

Now let us pray that we can walk across the street and get this red-blue shit behind us. It starts with you and me. Right now. Today.

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4 years

Thought of the day. I think poetry & music (some music) are greatest forms of human expression. Hence, I think any team of a dozen people should have a poet and a musician.* (And, of course, at least six women.) (*This holds especially in tech world and probably in medicine.)

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11 years

Big SIX 1. Hello. 2. Thank you. 3. Eye contact. 4. Fierce listening. 5. "What do you think?" 6. "How can I help?"

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5 years

Do the planet a favor. Purchase nothing tomorrow.

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