via Tom Peters

Don’t know if you follow the Tom Peters’ blog (yes THE Tom Peters), very interesting stuff there, very inspiring and empowering. In one of his last post, Tom is speaking about his “rules”. I personally like them a lot, very simple but very powerful. Have a look:

• Hire Great People (Resilient, Passionate)
• Try a Lot of Stuff (S.A.V.-Screw Around Vigorously/R.F.A.—Ready. Fire. Aim.)
• All “Wow” All the Time (Shoot for the moon—in every circumstance)
• Enjoy It While It Lasts (And it ain’t gonna last forever, so you might as well keep swinging)

In the same post, Tom is also bringing two very nice quotes:

From BusinessWeek
In business, you reward people for taking risks. When it doesn’t work out, you promote them because they were willing to try new things. If people come back and tell me they skied all day and never fell down, I tell them to try a different mountain.

From Bloomberg by Bloomberg
We made mistakes, of course. Most of them were omissions we didn’t think of when we initially wrote the software. We fixed them by doing it over and over, again and again. We do the same today. While our competitors are still sucking their thumbs trying to make the design perfect, we’re already on prototype version #5. By the time our rivals are ready with wires and screws, we are on version #10. It gets back to planning versus acting: We act from day one; others plan how to plan—for months.