All You Need to Know more or less
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All You Need to Know* *more or less Tom Peters/GE Infrastructure/Orlando/24 January 2006
Slides at … tompeters. com
Cause
“Create a ‘cause, ’ not a ‘business. ’’ —Gary Hamel
“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first ‘Who do we intend to be? ’ Not ‘What question for a leader always is: are we going to do? ’ but ‘Who do we intend to be? ’” —Max De Pree, Herman Miller
“We are a ‘life Success Company”’ -founder, RE/MAX
Artist
Leader Job 1 Paint Portraits of Excellence!
“I never, ever thought of myself as a businessman. I was interested in creating things I would be proud of. ” —Richard Branson
People
Brand = Talent.
“Leaders ‘do’ people. ” —Anon.
Our Mission To develop and manage talent; to apply that talent, throughout the world, for the benefit of clients; to do so in partnership; to do so with profit. WPP
Decency
“It was much later that I realized Dad’s secret. He gained respect by giving it. He talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say. ” —Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect
Grace
“Thank you”
“The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture. ” —Ken Langone
Rodale’s on “Grace” … elegance … charm … loveliness … poetry in motion … kindliness. . benevolence … benefaction … compassion … beauty
Intangibles
“Hard is soft. Soft is hard. ”* *In Search of Excellence
Selfmanagement
“The First step in a ‘dramatic’ ‘organizational change program’ is obvious—dramatic personal change!” —RG
You = Your Calendar
be “You must the change you wish to see in the world. ” Gandhi
“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself believe. ” —Winston Churchill
MBWA
“The first and greatest imperative of command is to be present in person. Those who impose risk must be seen to share it. ” —John Keegan, The Mask of Command
“A body can pretend to care, but they can’t pretend to be there. ” — Texas Bix Bender
“You can’t lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse. ” —John Peers, President, Logical Machine Corporation
Curiosity
Ears
“If you don’t listen, you don’t sell anything. ” —Carolyn Marland/MD/Guardian Group
Conformity
it is also increasingly the same. ” “While everything may be better, Paul Goldberger on retail, “The Sameness of Things, ” The New York Times
“Companies have defined so much ‘best practice’ that they are now more or less identical. ” Jesper Kunde, Unique Now. . . or Never
“To grow, companies need to break out of a vicious cycle of competitive benchmarking and imitation. ” —W. Chan Kim & René Mauborgne, “Think for Yourself —Stop Copying a Rival, ” Financial Times/08. 11. 03
“The short road to ruin is to emulate the methods of your adversary. ” — Winston Churchill
Action
“We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things. ” — Herb Kelleher
A man approached JP Morgan, held up an envelope, and said, “Sir, in my hand I hold a guaranteed formula for success, which I will gladly sell you for $25, 000. ” “Sir, ” JP Morgan replied, “I do not know what is in the envelope, however if you show me, and I like it, I give you my word as a gentleman that I will pay you what you ask. ” The man agreed to the terms, and handed over the envelope. JP Morgan opened it, and extracted a single sheet of paper. He gave it one look, a mere glance, then handed the piece of paper back to the gent. And paid him the agreed-upon $25, 000.
1. Every morning, write a list of the things that need to be done that day. 2. Do them. Source: Hugh Mac. Leod/tompeters. com/NPR
Focus
“Dennis, you need a ‘To-don’t ’ List !”
“I used to have a rule for myself that at any point in time I wanted to have in mind — as it so happens, also in writing, on a little card I carried around with me — the three big things I was trying to get done. Three. Not two. Not four. Not five. Not ten. Three. ” — Richard Haass, The Power to Persuade
Change
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less. ” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
“We eat change for breakfast! —Harry Quadracci, Quad. Graphics
“I’m not comfortable unless I’m uncomfortable. ” —Jay Chiat
“The most successful people are those who are good at ‘plan B. ’” —James Yorke, mathematician, on chaos theory in The New Scientist
Relentless
“This [adolescent] incident [of getting from point A to point B] is notable not only because it underlines Grant’s fearless horsemanship and his determination, but also it is the first known example of a very important peculiarity of his character: Grant had an extreme, almost phobic dislike of turning back and retracing his steps. If he set out for somewhere, he would get there somehow, whatever the difficulties that lay in his way. This idiosyncrasy would turn out to be one the factors that made him such a formidable general. Grant would always, always press on—turning back was not an option for him. ” —Michael Korda, Ulysses Grant
Richard & Kevin
Sir Richard’s Rules: Follow your passions. Keep it simple. Get the best people to help you. Re-create yourself. Play.
Kevin Roberts’ Credo 1. Ready. Fire! Aim. 2. If it ain’t broke. . . Break it! 3. Hire crazies. 4. Ask dumb questions. 5. Pursue failure. 6. Lead, follow. . . or get out of the way! 7. Spread confusion. 8. Ditch your office. 9. Read odd stuff. 10. Avoid moderation!
Passion & Enthusiasm
I am a dispenser of enthusiasm. ” —Ben Zander
“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm. ” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“A man without a smiling face must not open a shop. ” —Chinese Proverb* *Courtesy Tom Morris, The Art of Achievement
Hustle
“Most important, upped the energy level at he Motorola. ” —Fortune on Ed Zander/08. 05
Sunny
“Ronald Reagan radiated an almost transcendent happiness. ” Half-full Cups: — Lou Cannon
“A leader is a dealer in hope. ” Napoleon
Aim High
The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. Michelangelo
“Beware of the tyranny of making Small Changes to Small Things. Rather, make Big Changes to Big Things. ” Enrico, former Chairman, Pepsi. Co —Roger
Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. Steve Jobs
Dream
“the wildest chimera of a moonstruck mind” —The Federalist on TJ’s Louisiana Purchase
“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? ” —Mary Oliver
Sell
. “Everyone lives by selling something. ” – Robert Louis Stevenson
Value-added
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Study more Renew more Tailor more Offer more Listen more Market more Practice more Challenge more Socialize more Smile more Follow-up more Plan execution more
Experience
Experience: “Rebel Lifestyle!” “What we sell is the ability for a 43 year-old accountant to dress in black leather, ride through small towns and have people be afraid of him. ” Harley exec, quoted in Results-Based Leadership
No Limits
“You do not merely want to be the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do. ” Jerry Garcia
- Lirik lagu more more more we praise you
- More more more i want more more more more we praise you
- “the more you save, the less you spend” describes
- Fulghum all i really need to know
- I wish you much strength
- All of you is more than enough for all of me
- 5 apples in a basket riddle
- The more you study the more you learn
- If less is more how you keeping score
- Everything you need to know about the odyssey
- Greek and roman art similarities
- Lindell cooley i need you more
- I surrender i want to know you more
- Attention is all you need google
- Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink
- All i need is the air that i breathe and to love you abba
- Money is all you need
- Good morning class!
- Tweet less kiss more
- Le corbusier less is more
- Coco chanel weed
- Word level translation problems
- Worry less enjoy more
- How to say conciseness
- Classic period
- Theme of the poem she walks in beauty
- Rounding decimals to the nearest hundredth
- Chapter 64. less is more: reich and minimalist music
- Explore more worry less
- Write less do more
- He must become greater; i must become less
- 5730x5
- Axe less is more
- Neil postman five things
- My dentist told me to
- Evs lesson plan
- What is need to know basis
- Know history know self
- Do deep generative models know what they don’t know?
- I know who goes before me i know who stands behind
- Punctuating split speech
- Name all the lines name all the segments name all the rays
- So you think you know minecraft
- Heppy nod
- You're a poet and you don't know it
- When you're blue and you don't know
- How do you know if you're asexual
- Do you know who you are
- I will always follow you whenever and wherever you go i am
- My wish for you is that life becomes
- The detective needs more time to inquire about the case.
- 馮定華
- Standardasation
- You have more potential than you think
- What is an expository sentence
- Why do organisms need nitrogen?
- Why do organisms need food?
- All we need
- We all need food
- The verger lesson
- Mr know all
- Negative tendencies as barrier in communication
- Know it all employee
- Die hippie die
- Aspire not to have more but to be more
- Newtons 1law
- Knowing more remembering more
- More love to thee o lord
- More choices more chances
- Human history becomes more and more a race
- Wear goggles
- Unless you repent you will all likewise perish
- It can be quite busy here during the tourist
- 5 hobbies you need
- You only need to be lucky once
- Why the oxford comma is important
- Seed paragraph
- How to properly quote in an essay
- How do you sign your new passport
- Recognizing genre - argumentative text answer key
- When climbing where do you need high friction
- Chapter 16 driving on highways
- Choose the correct answer to the questions
- Let's be a good friend