"If your company has a clean-desk policy, the company is nuts and you're nuts to stay there"
- Tom Peters
About this Quote
This quote by Tom Peters is a criticism of companies that have a clean-desk policy. He is recommending that such a policy is unreasonable and that anybody who works for a company with such a policy is absurd for remaining there. He suggests that such a policy is a sign of an improperly handled company which it is not favorable to efficiency. He is suggesting that a chaotic desk is a sign of imagination and performance, and that a clean desk is a sign of stagnation and absence of development. He is also suggesting that such a policy is a sign of micromanagement and a lack of rely on employees. He is recommending that business need to trust their workers to manage their own offices which a clean-desk policy is not essential.
This quote is written / told by Tom Peters somewhere between November 7, 1942 and today. He was a famous Businessman from USA.
The author also have 19 other quotes.
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