Tom Peters (1942) is best-known for In Search of Excellence. He has probably done more than anyone else to shift the debate on management from the confines of boardrooms, academia, and consultancies to a broader, worldwide audience.
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You. Are. Your. Own. H.R. Manager.
How can social media support you in your ‘Me Inc’ journey? Wrong question. We can no longer afford not to engage. Being a Me Inc means being your own HR manager.
The Plan in the Mirror
To cut a long story short: I am lost and we are not so sure that I will ever be able to get back on track. I simply refuse to accept that the purpose of planning is to make a plan.
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We are CEOs of our own companies: Me Inc. To be in business today, our most important job is to be head marketer for the brand called you.
Music and Leadership (part 5)
A conversation on the parallels between music and leadership reveals quite some blind spots. And I’ll let you guess on which of both sides. What worries me most is that these blind spots are too obvious to be true.
Horror, the Ultimate Learning
Buzzard attacks are rare, but when they occur on the scalp of an organizational change practitioner it leaves a scar. Five seconds of horror and two lessons for life: Respect and Experience.
A conflict isn’t always a bad thing – Part 4
"Implementation is the last 99%" – Tom Peters Finally – the GSD perspective (GSD = ‘Getting Stuff Done’). When we have a closer look at the workplace dynamics that are in play when projects and departments are getting work done (aka: ‘implementation’), there is a remarkable phenomenon: conflict and tension seem to be part of [...]
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Plans … are made to be tinkered with—and eventually torn up.
Tom Peters
If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.
Tom Peters
Success follows from tryin’ enough stuff so that the odds of doin’ something right tilt your way. The only thing I’ve truly learned “for sure” in the last 40 years is “Try more stuff than the other guy” — there is no poetic license here, I mean it.
Tom Peters
Somebody asked Thomas Watson, Sr., the senior member of the Watson family that effectively founded IBM. They said, “Mr. Watson, how long does it take to become excellent?” And Mr. Watson purportedly said, “A minute.” This was years before The One Minute Manager. Somebody said, “A minute?” And he said, “Yes. It is a personal [...]
