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Tom PetersEXCELLENCE. ALWAYS.Talent.Time.
Society for Human Resource ManagementEl
Conquistador Resort/28September2006
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EXCELLENCE. ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.
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EXCELLENCE. THE CHALLENGE.
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THREE BILLION NEW CAPITALISTS Clyde Prestowitz
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There is no job that is Americas God-given
right anymore. Carly Fiorina/HP/January2004
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One Singaporean worker costs as much as
3 in Malaysia 8 in
Thailand 13 in China 18 in
India. Source The Straits Times/2003
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SpainPortugalItalyIrelandSingapore
TaiwanThailandMalaysiaSingapore
PhilippinesUAEOmanChileBotswanaRomania New
Zealand
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Better By Design A National StrategyNZ
Design Excellence
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THE FUTURE BELONGS TO SMALL POPULATIONS
WHO BUILD EMPIRES OF THE MIND AND WHO IGNORE
THE TEMPTATION OFOR DO NOT HAVE THE OPTION
OFEXPLOITING NATURAL RESOURCES.Source Juan
Enriquez/As the Future Catches You
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EXCELLENCE. THE CHALLENGE.
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If you dont like change, youre going to
like irrelevance even less. General Eric
Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
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It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one
most responsive to change. Charles Darwin
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EXCELLENCE. STARTERS.BASICS.
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People.Product.Clients.Execution.Enthusiasm.E
xcellence.
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People.Product.Clients.Execution.Enthusiasm.E
xcellence.Relentlessness.
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People.Product.Clients.Execution.Enthusiasm.E
xcellence.Relentlessness. Senility.
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ForgetgtLearnThe problem is never how to get
new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how
to get the old ones out. Dee Hock
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EXCELLENCE. STARTERS.BASICS.LEADERS.
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EnthusiasmEnergyExuberanceVoracious
CuriosityIrritability/Dis-satisfaction artistic
inclination RelentlessnessSelf-relianceCloser
(Execution) engagementexcellence
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EXCELLENCE. THE WORD.
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SynonymsPurityTranscendenceVirtueEleganceMaj
estyAntonymsMediocrity
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EXCELLENCE. MESSAGE82.
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Excellence1982 The Bedrock Eight Basics 1. A
Bias for Action 2. Close to the Customer 3.
Autonomy and Entrepreneurship 4. Productivity
Through People 5. Hands On, Value-Driven 6. Stick
to the Knitting 7. Simple Form, Lean Staff 8.
Simultaneous Loose-Tight Properties
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ExIn 1982-2002/Forbes.comDJIA 10,000 yields
85,000 EI 10,000 yields 140,050
Forbes/Excellence Index /Basket of 32
publicly traded stocks
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EXCELLENCE. ANYBODY LISTENING?
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Hardball Are You Playing to Play or Playing to
Win? by George Stalk Rob Lachenauer/HBS
PressThe winners in business have always
played hardball. Unleash massive and
overwhelming force. Exploit anomalies.
Threaten your competitors profit sanctuaries.
Entice your competitor into retreat.Approximat
ely 640 Index entries Customer/s (service,
retention, loyalty), 4. People (employees,
motivation, morale, worker/s), 0. Innovation
(product development, research development, new
products), 0.
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GOOD WORDS.BAD WORDS.
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Words that may NOT be used in my presence
Motivate
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In the end, management doesnt change culture.
Management invites the workforce itself to
change the culture. Lou Gerstner
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EXCELLENCE. ASPIRATION.
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Why in the world did you go to Siberia?
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The Peters Principles Enthusiasm. Emotion.
Excellence. Energy. Excitement. Service. Growth.
Creativity. Imagination. Vitality. Joy.
Surprise. Independence. Spirit. Community.
Limitless human potential. Diversity. Profit.
Innovation. Design. Quality. Entrepreneurialism.
Wow.
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Business (at its best) An emotional, vital,
innovative, joyful, creative, entrepreneurial
endeavor that elicits maximum concerted human
potential in the wholehearted service of
others.Excellence. Always.Employees,
Customers, Suppliers, Communities, Owners,
Temporary partners
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To me business isnt about wearing suits or
pleasing stockholders. Its about being true to
yourself, your ideas and focusing on the
essentials. Richard Branson
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EXCELLENCE. HTSH.
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HTSH/Hands That Shape Humanity Engage!Commit!
Engage! Try! Fail! Get up! Try again! Fail again!
Try again! But never, ever stop moving on!
Progress for humanity is engendered by those who
join and savor the fray by giving one hundred
percent of themselves to their dreams! Not by
those timid souls who remain glued to the
sidelines, stifled by tradition, and fearful of
losing face or giving offense to the reigning
authorities.Key words Commit! Engage! Try!
Fail! Persist!HTST/Hands That Shape Humanity,
Tom Peters contribution to a Bishop Tutu
Foundation exhibit
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EXCELLENCE. YOU ME.
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The First step in a dramatic organizational
change program is obviousdramatic personal
change! RG
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Work on me first. Kerry Patterson, Joseph
Grenny, Ron McMillan and Al Switzler/Crucial
Conversations
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EXCELLENCE.NEW MARKETS.ENORMOUS.
OPPORTUNITIES.
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Idiot is too kind a word.
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Thats a very diverse team. Patrick Cescau,
CEO, Unilever 1 of 14 Board of Directors
members is a woman (not an exec) 2 of 7 Exec
Team members are Indians. (Source FT/24-25
June.) Approximately 85 of Unilevers products
are purchased by women.
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Thats a VERY diverse team. Patrick
Cescau, CEO, Unilever 1 of 14 Board of
Directors members is a woman (not an exec) 2 of
7 Exec Team members are Indians. (Source
FT/24-25 June.) Approximately 85 of Unilevers
products are purchased by women.
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Thats a VERY sick man. Tom Peters
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EXCELLENCE. FOUND.DUH.
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To be a leader in consumer products, its
critical to have leaders who represent the
population we serve. Steve Reinemund/PepsiCo
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EXCELLENCE. OPPORTUNITY.WOMEN.
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Women are the majority market Fara
Warner/The Power of the Purse
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She knows more about the Volvo than the
salesman who greets her at the door. But how is
she treated? As if she has a low IQ , is slightly
hard of hearing , and really has no right to be
buying a luxury car and if she brought a male
friend with her, odds are 101 that the clueless
salesperson spent most of his time speaking to
him . Selling to Men, Selling to Women, Jeffery
Tobias Halter
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1. Men and women are different.2. Very
different.3. VERY, VERY DIFFERENT.4. Women
Men have a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y nothing in
common.5. Women buy lotsa stuff.6. WOMEN BUY
A-L-L THE STUFF.7. Womens Market Opportunity
No. 1.8. Men are (STILL) in charge.9. MEN ARE
TOTALLY, HOPELESSLY CLUELESS ABOUT WOMEN.
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10. Womens Market Opportunity No. 1.
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EXCELLENCE. OPPORTUNITY.WOMEN BUSINESS
OWNERS.
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10.6
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The growth and success of women-owned businesses
is one of the most profound changes taking place
in the business world today. Margaret
Heffernan, How She Does It
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U.S. firms owned or controlled by Women 10.6
million (48 of all firms) Growth rate of
Women-owned firms vs all firms 3X Rate of jobs
created by Women-owned firms vs all firms
2X Ratio of total payroll of Women-owned firms
vs total for Fortune500 firms gt1.0 Ratio of
likelihood of Women-owned firms staying in
business vs all firms gt1.0 Growth rate of
Women-owned companies with revenues of
gt1,000,000 and gt100 employees vs all firms 2X
Source Margaret Heffernan, How She Does It
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COROLLARY. EXCELLENCE. WOMEN.RULE.
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AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE New Studies find that
female managers outshine their male counterparts
in almost every measure TITLE/ Special
Report/ BusinessWeek
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Womens Strengths Match New Economy Imperatives
Link rather than rank workers favor
interactive-collaborative leadership style
empowerment beats top-down decision making
sustain fruitful collaborations comfortable with
sharing information see redistribution of power
as victory, not surrender favor
multi-dimensional feedback value technical
interpersonal skills, individual group
contributions equally readily accept ambiguity
honor intuition as well as pure rationality
inherently flexible appreciate cultural
diversity. Judy B. Rosener, Americas
Competitive Secret Women Managers
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Womens Negotiating
StrengthsAbility to put themselves in their
counterparties shoesComprehensive, attentive
and detailed communication styleEmpathy that
facilitates trust-buildingCurious and attentive
listeningLess competitive attitudeStrong
sense of fairness and ability to
persuadeProactive risk managerCollaborative
decision-makingSource Horacio Falcao, Cover
story/May 2006, World Business, Say It Like a
Woman Why the 21st-century negotiator will need
the female touch
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TAKE THIS QUICK QUIZ Who manages more things
at once? Who puts more effort into their
appearance? Who usually takes care of the
details? Who finds it easier to meet new
people? Who asks more questions in a
conversation? Who is a better listener? Who
has more interest in communication skills? Who
is more inclined to get involved? Who
encourages harmony and agreement? Who has
better intuition? Who works with a longer to
do list? Who enjoys a recap to the days
events? Who is better at keeping in touch
with others?Source Selling Is a Womans Game
15 Powerful Reasons Why Women Can Outsell Men,
Nicki Joy Susan Kane-Benson
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The Core Argument Women Ought to Rule!1.
We are in a War for Talent.2. The war will
intensify.3. There is a severe shortage of
effective leaders at all levels.4. Women are
under-represented in our leadership ranks at
or near the top.5. Women and men are different
new science reinforces this view.6.
Womens strengths match the New Economys
leadership needsto a striking degree.7. Women
are also the principal purchasers of goods
and servicesretail and commercial.8. Ergo,
women are a large part of the answer to
the War for Talent/leadership shortage
issue/opportunity.
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WOMEN. DOMINATE. ECONOMIC. GROWTH.
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Forget China, India and the Internet Economic
Growth Is Driven by Women. Headline, Economist,
April 15, 2006, Leader, page 14
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Forget China, India and the Internet Economic
Growth Is Driven by Women. Headline. Even
today in the modern, developed world, surveys
show that parents still prefer to have a boy
rather than a girl. One longstanding reason boys
have been seen as a greater blessing has been
that they are expected to become better economic
providers for their parents old age. Yet it is
time for parents to think again. Girls may now be
a better investment. Girls get better grades in
school than boys, and in most developed countries
more women than men go to university. Women will
thus be better equipped for the new jobs of the
21st century, in which brains count a lot more
than brawn. And women are more likely to
provide sound advice on investing their parents
neste.g. surveys show that women consistently
achieve higher financial returns than men do.
Furthermore, the increase in female employment in
the rich world has been the main driving force of
growth in the last couple of decades. Those women
have contributed more to global GDP growth than
have either new technology or the new giants,
India and China. Source Economist, April 15,
Leader, page 14
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Continuing on page 73 A Guide to Womenomics
The Future of the World Economy Lies Increasingly
in Female Hands. (Headline.) More stats Around
the globe since 1980, women have filled two new
jobs for everyone taken by a man. Women are
becoming more important in the global marketplace
not just as workers, but also as consumers,
entrepreneurs, managers and investors. Re
consumption, Goldman Sachs in Tokyo has developed
an index of 115 companies poised to benefit from
womens increased purchasing power over the past
decade the value of shares in Goldmans basket
has risen by 96, against the Tokyo stockmarkets
rise of 13. A couple of final assertions (1)
It is now agreed that the single best investment
that can be made in the developing world is
educating girls. (2) Also, surprisingly, nations
with the highest female laborforce participation
rates, such as Sweden and the U.S., have the
highest fertility rates and those with the
lowest participation rates, such as Italy and
Germany, have the lowest fertility
rates. Source Economist, April 15, page 73
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Q No. 1 contributor to developing country
economic improvement?A More education
for women.Source Many (On a related note,
eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife just
gave 100M to Tuftsits biggest gift everto
support micro-lending women typically arethe
recipients of 90 of micro-loans because they
usethe more productively than men.)
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Repeat Goldman Sachs in Tokyo has developed an
index of 115 companies poised to benefit from
womens increased purchasing power over the past
decade the value of shares in Goldmans basket
has risen by 96, against the Tokyo stockmarkets
rise of 13. Economist, April 15
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Impact! Add It Up!Primary
markets/Everything (Men buy things that other
men will buy for women. I buy things that women
want.successful jeweler/F. Women are the
majority market Fara Warner/The Power of the
Purse. Women as Purchasing Officers, CIOs,
etc.)Greater global workforce participation rate
(bigger contributor to GDP growth than
technology, China, IndiaEconomist)Higher wages
(more seniority, promotionseven if not to CEO
greater pay equityeven if not equal)Business
decision makers (more seniority,
promotionseven if not to CEO)Women-owned
businesses (answer to the Glass Ceiling10.6M in
USA recipients of micro-lendingdeveloping
world)
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10 UNASSAILABLE REASONS WOMEN
RULE Women make all the financial
decisions.Women control all the wealth. Women
substantially outlive men. Women start most of
the new businesses. Womens work force
participation rates have soared
worldwide. Women are closing in on same pay for
same job. Women are penetrating senior
ranks rapidly even if the pace is slow for
the corner office per se. Womens
leadership strengths are exceptionally well
aligned with new organizational effectiveness
imperatives. Women are better salespersons than
men. Women buy almost everythingcommercial
as well as consumer goods. So what exactly is
the point of men?
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EXCELLENCE. 4/40.
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De-cent-ral-iz-a-tion!
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Ex-e-cu-tion!
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Execution is a systematic process of
rigorously discussing hows and whats,
tenaciously following through, and ensuring
accountability. Larry Bossidy Ram Charan/
Execution The DISCIPLINE of Getting Things Done
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The person who is a little less conceptual but
is absolutely determined to succeed will usually
find the right people and get them together to
achieve objectives. Im not knocking education or
looking for dumb people. But if you have to
choose between someone with a staggering IQ and
an elite education whos gliding along, and
someone with a lower IQ but who is absolutely
determined to succeed, youll always do better
with the second person. Larry
Bossidy/Execution The Discipline of Getting
Things Done
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Ac-count-a-bil-ity!
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Realism is the heart of execution. Larry
Bossidy Ram Charan/Execution The Discipline
of Getting Things Done
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615A.M.
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????????Work Hard gt Work Smart
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EXCELLENCE. DRAMATIC.DIFFERENCE.DOABLE.
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798
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415/SqFt/WalMart798/SqFt/Whole Foods
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1/100 Best Companies to Work for/2005
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Wegmans
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7X. 730A-800P. F12A.93-03/10 yr annual
return CB 29 WM 17 HD 16. Mkt Cap 48
p.a.
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A man without a smiling face must not open a
shop. Chinese Proverb
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EXCELLENCE. 1T.
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Donnellys Weatherstrip Service Weymouth MA
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EXCELLENCE. 1T.
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Jims Group Jim Penman/Empire Builders/MT
/Jan/Feb 2006/Australia
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Jims Group Jim Penman. 1984 Jims Mowing.
2006 Jims Group. 2,600 franchisees (Australia,
NZ, UK). Cleaning. Dog washing. Handyman.
Fencing. Paving. Pool care. Etc.People
first. Private. Small staff. Franchisees can
leave at will. 0-1 complaint per year is norm
cut bad ones quickly.Ph.D. cross-cultural
anthropology mowing on the sideSource
MT/Management Today (Australia), Jan-Feb 2006
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WallopWalMart16Or Why its so ABSURDLY
EASY to BEAT a GIANT Company
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The Small Guys Guide Wallop
WalMart16 Niche-aimed. (Never, ever all
things for all people, a mini-WalMart.) Never
attack the monsters head on! (Instead steal niche
business and lukewarm customers.) Dramatically
Different (La Difference ... within our
community, our industry regionally, etc is as
obvious as the end of ones nose!) (THIS IS WHERE
MOST MIDGETS COME UP SHORT.) Compete on
value/experience/intimacy, not price. (You aint
gonna beat the behemoths on cost-price in 9.99
out of 10 cases.) Emotional bond with Clients,
Vendors. (BEAT THE BIGGIES ON EMOTION/CONNECTION!!
)
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tom peters what Ive Learned about Small
Business
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Passion for PRODUCT.OBSESSION With Product.LOVE
The Product.Aim To Be ONLY ONES WHO DO WHAT WE
DO.Keep ADDIN Stuff.Invest UNWISELY in
RD.Reside Permanently In The DISCOMFORT
Zone.Unhealthy PARANOIA Is A Good Thing.Add
Clients That PUSH-PULL.SELL. SELL. SELL.
SELL.Go For Broke CUSTOMER CONTACT
PEOPLE.PERFECTION Customer Contact People.Hire
for ATTITUDE.INVITE On An Adventure. GREAT
CFO/Biz Guy-Gal. NASTY CFO/Biz
Guy-Gal.QUADRANGULAR LEADERSHIP
Visionary-Talent Fanatic-Project Manager-I.P.M.
(I.P.M. Inspired Profit Mechanic)
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EXCELLENCE. BEDROCK.TALENT.
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Hire very good people!
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We believe companies can increase their market
cap 50 percent in 3 years. Steve Macadam at
Georgia-Pacific changed 20 of his 40 box plant
managers to put more talented, higher paid
managers in charge. He increased profitability
from 25 million to 80 million in 2 years.
Ed Michaels, War for Talent
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CtaOChief talent acquisition Officer
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INVITE THEM TO JOIN US IN A JOURNEY TO EXCELLENCE!
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In the end, management doesnt change culture.
Management invites the workforce itself to
change the culture. Lou Gerstner
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Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis and Patricia
Ward BiedermanGroups become great only when
everyone in them, leaders and members alike, is
free to do his or her absolute best.The best
thing a leader can do for a Great Group is to
allow its members to discover their greatness.
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Leaderships Mt Everest/Mt Excellencefree to
do his or her absolute best allow its
members to discover their greatness.
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The role of the Director is to create a space
where the actor or actress can become more than
theyve ever been before, more than theyve
dreamed of being. Robert Altman, Oscar
acceptance
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No matter what the situation, the great
managers first response is always to think
about the individual concerned and how things can
be arranged to help that individual experience
success. Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You
Need to Know
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CQOChief quest-meister
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EMPHASIZE THE SOFT SKILLS.
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Its simple, really, Tom. Hire for ?s, and,
above all, promote for ?s. Starbucks middle
manager/field
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A Few Lessons from the ArtsEach hired and
developed and evaluated in unique ways (23
contributors 23 unique contributions 23
pathways 23 personalities 23 sets of
motivators)Attitude/Enthusiasm/Energy
paramountRe-lent-less!Practice is cool (G
Leonard/Mastery)Team and individual Aspire to
EXCELLENCE ObviousEx-e-cu-tionTalent Brand
DuhThe Project rulesEmotional languageBit
players. No.B.I.W. (everything)Delta events
Delta rosters (incl leader/s)
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PUT HR AT THE HEAD OF THE HEAD TABLE. BEST
PEOPLE. NOBLEST MISSION.
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DD21M
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A review of Jack and Suzy Welchs Winning claims
there are but two key differentiators that set GE
culture apart from the herd First Separating
financial forecasting and performance
measurement. Performance measurement based, as it
usually is, on budgeting leads to an epidemic of
gaming the system. GEs performance measurement
is divorced from budgetingand instead reflects
how you do relative to your past performance and
relative to competitors performance i.e., its
about how you actually do in the context of what
happened in the real world, not as compared to a
gamed-abstract plan developed last year.
Second Putting HR on a par with finance and
marketing.
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SO YOURE A PEOPLE PERSON? PROVE IT.
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Leaders do people. Period. Anon.
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Les Wexner From sweaters to people!
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PARCs Bob Taylor Connoisseur of Talent
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The leaders of Great Groups love talent and
know where to find it. They revel in the talent
of others. Warren Bennis Patricia Ward
Biederman, Organizing Genius
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LIVE FOR TALENT!
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Our MissionTo develop and manage talentto
apply that talent,throughout the world, for the
benefit of clientsto do so in partnership to
do so with profit.WPP
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Whats your companys EVP/IBP?Employee
Value Proposition, per Ed Michaels et al., The
War for Talent IBP/Internal Brand Promise per TP
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EVP/IBP Remarkable challenge, rapid
professional growth, respect, satisfaction, fun,
stunning opportunity, exceptional reward, amazing
peer group, full membership in Club Adventure,
maximized future employabilitySource Ed
Michaels, The War for Talent TP
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We are a Life Success Company.Dave Liniger,
founder, RE/MAX
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Brand Talent.
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The key difference between checkers and chess
is that in checkers the pieces all move the same
way, whereas in chess all the pieces move
differently. Discover what is unique about each
person and capitalize on it. Marcus
Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know
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Re-imaginePeople Power The Talent50
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The Talent501. People first!2.
Soft is Hard. 3. FUNDAMENTAL PREMISE We are in
an Age of Talent/ Creativity/Intellectual-
capital Added.4. Talent excellence in every
part of the organization.5. P.O.T./Pursuit
Of Talent Obsession.6. HR sits at The Head
Table.7. HR is cool.
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The Talent508. Re-name
HR. (Talent Department, Center of Talent
Excellence)9. Theres an HR Strategy10. There
is a FORMAL Recruitment Strategy.11. There is a
FORMAL Leadership Development
Strategy.12. There is a world class
Leadership Development Center.13. There is
a FORMAL-STRATEGIC HR Review Process.14.
The Top100, and every units Top10, are
consciously managed.
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The Talent50 15.
People/Talent Reviews are the FIRST
reviews.16. HR Strategy Business Strategy.17.
Make it a Cause Worth Signing Up For.. 18. Set
Sky High Standards.19. Enlist everyone in
Challenge Century21.20. Pursue the Best!21. Up
or Out.22. Ensure that the Review Process has
INTEGRITY.23. Pay!
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The Talent5024. Training I
Train! Train! Train!25. TII 100 business
people.26. TIII 100 Leaders.27. TIV Boss as
Trainer-in-Chief.28. Open Communication I NO
BARRIERS.29. Open Communication II Share
Information. (ALL!)30. Respect!31.
INTEGRITY!32. Treat the Whole Individual.
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The Talent5033. Places of
grace.34. MBWA The Rudy Rule.35. Thank
You!36. Promote for people skills. (ALL
ELSE IS SECONDARY.)37. Honor youth.38. Early
leadership assignments.39. Fast Tracking is the
norm.40. Create a System of Mentoring.
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The Talent5041.
Diversity!42. Diversity starts on the Board of
Directors.43. WOMEN RULE.44. Weird
Wins.45. We are all unique. 46. Bosses win
people over.47. GOAL Adventures of Mutual
Discovery.48. Foster Independence.49.
Enthusiasm!
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50. Talent Brand.
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EXCELLENCE.NECESSITY.OPPORTUNITY.
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Disintermediation is overrated. Those who
fear disintermediation-outsourcing should in fact
be afraid of irrelevance outsourcing is just
another way of saying that youve become
irrelevant to your customers. John
Battelle/Point/Advertising Age/07.05
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ChicagoHRMAC
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Sarah Mom, what do you do?Mom
Im overhead.
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support function / cost center/ overhead
or
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Are you Rock Stars of the Age of Talent
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Department Head to Managing Partner, IS
HR, RD, etc. Inc.
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AnswerPSF
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Core MechanismGame-changing Solutions PSF
(Professional Service Firm model/The
Organizing Principle) Brand You(Distinct or
Extinct/The Talent) Wow! Projects
(Different vs Better/The Work)
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The PSF35 Thirty-Five Professional Service
Firm Marks of Excellence
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The PSF35 The Work The Legacy1.
CRYSTAL CLEAR POINT OF VIEW (E very
Practice Group If you cant explain your
position in eight words or less, you dont
have a positionSeth Godin)2. DRAMATIC
DIFFERENCE (We are the only ones who do what
we doJerry Garcia)3. Stretch Is Routine
(Never bite off less than you can
chewanon.)4. Eye-Appetite for Game-changer
Projects (Excellence at Assembling Best
TeamFast) 5. Playful Clients (Adventurous
folks who unfailingly Aim to Change the
World)6. Small Uneconomic Clients with Big
Aims 7. Life Is Too Short to Work with Jerks
(Fire lousy clients)8. OBSESSED WITH LEGACY
(Practice Group and Individual Dent the
UniverseSteve Jobs)9. Fire-on-the-spot Anyone
Who Says, Law/Architecture/Consulting/
I-banking/ Accounting/PR/Etc. has become a
commodity 10. Consistent with 9 above DO
NOT SHY AWAY FROM THE WORD (IDEA)
RADICAL
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Pointed Point of View!
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PSF Nirvana CounselorTrusted Advisor
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AnswerPSF
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HCare CIO Technology Executive (workin in a
hospital) Or/to Full-scale, Accountable (life
or death) Member-Partner of XYZ Hospitals
Senior Healing-Services Team (who happens to be a
techie)
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The WOW! Project.
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Your Current Project?1. Another
days work/Pays the rent.4. Of value.7.
Pretty Damn Cool/Definitely subversive.10.
WE AIM TO CHANGE THE WORLD.
(Insane!/Insanely Great!/WOW!)
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If you are not prepared to be fired over your
beliefs you are working on the wrong project.
TP
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WOW! Projects Nuts Bolts (a few)
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Where to look for Playmates F.F.F.F. (Find
a Fellow Freak Faraway)
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Forward, march The Sri Lanka Stratagem
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Where NOT to look for Playmates BIG Division,
BIG Customer, BIG Vendor, UP
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Demos! Heroes! Stories!
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Best story wins!
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EXCELLENCE.TALENT PLUS.
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EXCELLENCE. (HEALTHCARE.)HEALTH.
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State of Healthcare/U.S.A.Spend more
per capitaOverall system performance/WHO
37th Relatively low life expectancyHigh
of uninsuredSource Consulting, 07-08.06
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State of Healthcare/U.S.A.Spend more
per capitaOverall system performance/WHO
37th Relatively low life expectancyHigh
of uninsuredSource Consulting, 07-08.06
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Quality!Prevention!Wellness! Chronic
care!Childhood obesity!H5N1!
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Childhood Obesity gt TerrorismSource Mike
Levitt/Secretary HHS
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Wash your hands.Apply 50 sunscreen.Banish
trans fatBanish high fructose corn
syrup.Exercise 30-7.Breathe.Stockpile for
H5N1. (not Tamiflu!)Avoid hospitalization.Take
charge of your health.
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If God spoke to me by saying, Mark, youre down
to your last three words What would you want to
say to your fellow humans that would make the
most positive impact? It would be a close call
between Love Thy Neighbor and Wash Your Hands .
A close third would be Move, Move, Move. Mark
Pettus, M.D., The Savvy PatientThe most
important thing you can do to keep from getting
sick is to wash your hands. CDC/National
Center for Infectious Diseases
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EXCELLENCE. INDIVIDUAL.BRAND YOU.
167
One of the defining characteristics of the
change is that it will be less driven by
countries or corporations and more driven by real
people. It will unleash unprecedented
creativity, advancement of knowledge, and
economic development. But at the same time, it
will tend to undermine safety net systems and
penalize the unskilled. Clyde Prestowitz, Three
Billion New Capitalists
168
If there is nothing very special about your
work, no matter how hard you apply yourself you
wont get noticed, and that increasingly means
you wont get paid much either. Michael
Goldhaber, Wired
169
New Work
SurvivalKit.2006 1. MASTERY! (Best/Absurdly Good
at Something!)2. Manage to Legacy (All Work
Memorable/Braggable WOW Projects!) 3. A
USP/UNIQUE SELLING PROPOSITION 4. Rolodex
Obsession (From vertical/hierarchy/suck up
loyalty to horizontal/colleague/mate
loyalty)5. ENTREPRENEURIAL INSTINCT (A sleepless
Eye for Opportunity! 6.CEO/LEADER/BUSINESSPERSO
N/CLOSER (CEO, Me Inc. 24/7!)7. Master of
Improv (Play a dozen parts simultaneously, from
Chief Strategist to Chief Toilet Scrubber)8.
Sense of Humor (A willingness to Screw Up Move
On) 9. Comfortable with Your Skin (Bring
interesting you to work!)10. Intense Appetite
for Technology (E.g. How Cool-Active is your
Web site? Do you Blog?)11. EMBRACE MARKETING
(Your own CSO/Chief Storytelling Officer)12.
PASSION FOR RENEWAL (Your own CLO/Chief Learning
Officer) 13. EXECUTION EXCELLENCE! (Show up on
time! Leave last!)
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12January2006Happy 300 th, Brand You!
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In Toms world, its always better to try a swan
dive and deliver a colossal belly flop than to
step timidly off the board while holding your
nose. Fast Company
172
Life is not a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in a pretty and
well-preserved bodybut rather a skid in
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, Wow, what a ride!
anon.
173
Life is not a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in a pretty and
well-preserved bodybut rather a skid in
broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out,
and loudly proclaiming, Wow, what a ride!
anon.
174
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in one pretty and
well preserved piece, but to skid across the line
broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking
oil, shouting GERONIMO! Bill McKenna,
professional motorcycle racer (Cycle magazine
02.1982)
175
This is the true joy of Life, the being used for
a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one
the being a force of Nature instead of a
feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and
grievances complaining that the world will not
devote itself to making you happy. GB Shaw/Man
and Superman
176
Distinct or Extinct
177
Joe J. Jones 1942 2006 HE WOULDA DONE
SOME REALLY COOL STUFF BUT HIS BOSS
WOULDNT LET HIM!
178
Getting to WOW Through Mastery of The
Sales25.
179
Getting Things Done The Power
Implementation34.
180
Presentation Excellence The PresX56
181
The Interviewing Excellence The IntX31
182
EXCELLENCE. AWOL THE SCHOOLS FIASCO.
183
My wife and I went to a kindergarten
parent-teacher conference and were informed that
our budding refrigerator artist, Christopher,
would be receiving a grade of Unsatisfactory in
art. We were shocked. How could any childlet
alone our childreceive a poor grade in art at
such a young age? His teacher informed us that
he had refused to color within the lines, which
was a state requirement for demonstrating
grade-level motor skills. Jordan Ayan,
AHA!
184
Ye gads Thomas Stanley has not only found no
correlation between success in school and an
ability to accumulate wealth, hes actually found
a negative correlation. It seems that
school-related evaluations are poor predictors of
economic success, Stanley concluded. What did
predict success was a willingness to take risks.
Yet the success-failure standards of most schools
penalized risk takers. Most educational systems
reward those who play it safe. As a result, those
who do well in school find it hard to take risks
later on. Richard Farson Ralph Keyes,
Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins
185
15 Leading Biz SchoolsDesign/Core
0Design/Elective 1Creativity/Core
0Creativity/Elective 4Innovation/Core
0Innovation/Elective 6Source DMI/Summer
2002/Research by Thomas Lockwood
186
EXCELLENCE.ENTHUSIASM.ENERGY. PASSION.
187
Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
188
Whenever anything is being accomplished, I have
learned, it is being done by a monomaniac with a
mission. Peter Drucker
189
Q If it were your 100K lifes savings and my
100K, what sort of Waiters would we look
for?A Enthusiasts!
190
Ex-ub-er-ance!
191
EXCELLENCE. RELENTLESSNESS.
192
RE-LENT-LESS-NESS
193
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world.
The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt
the world to himself. Therefore, all progress
depends upon the unreasonable man. GB Shaw,
Man and Superman The Revolutionists'
Handbook.
194
This adolescent incident of getting from
point A to point B is notable not only because
it underlines Grants 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
onturning back was not an option for him.
Michael Korda, Ulysses Grant
195
EXCELLENCE. SHOWING UP.
196
MBWA
197
You must be the change you wish to see in the
world.Gandhi
198
try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it.
Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it.
Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. try it. Try it.
Try it. try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it.
Try it.
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try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it.
Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it.
Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. try it. Try it.
Try it. try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it.
Try it.
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This is so simple it sounds stupid, but it is
amazing how few oil people really understand that
you only find oil if you drill wells. You may
think youre finding it when youre drawing maps
and studying logs, but you have to drill.
Source The Hunters, by John Masters, Canadian
O G wildcatter
201
We have a strategic plan. Its called doing
things. Herb Kelleher
202
Experiment fearlesslySource BW0821.06, Type
A Organization Strategies/ How to Hit a Moving
TargetTactic 1
203
READY.FIRE!AIM.Ross Perot (vs Aim! Aim!
Aim! /EDS vs GM/1985)
204
S.A.V.
205
You miss 100 percent of the shots you never
take. Wayne Gretzky
206
Excellence1982 The Bedrock Eight Basics 1. A
Bias for Action 2. Close to the Customer 3.
Autonomy and Entrepreneurship 4. Productivity
Through People 5. Hands On, Value-Driven 6. Stick
to the Knitting 7. Simple Form, Lean Staff 8.
Simultaneous Loose-Tight Properties
207
tolerate encourage? failure
208
tolerate encourage? failure
209
FAIL, FAIL AGAIN. FAIL BETTER. Samuel Beckett
210
Fail . Forward. Fast.High Tech CEO,
PennsylvaniaFail faster. Succeed
Sooner.David Kelley/IDEO
211
Sams Secret 1!
212
Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre
successes.Phil Daniels, Sydney exec
213
EXCELLENCE. STRETCH.
214
The greatest dangerfor most of usis not that
our aim istoo highand we miss it,but that it
istoo lowand we reach it.Michelangelo
215
EXCELLENCE. KABOOM.
216
No Wiggle Room! Incrementalism is
innovations worst enemy. Nicholas
Negroponte
217
Beware of the tyranny of making Small Changes
to Small Things. Rather, make Big Changes to Big
Things. Roger Enrico, former Chairman,
PepsiCo
218
Five MYTHS About Changing BehaviorCrisis is
a powerful impetus for changeChange is
motivated by fearThe facts will set us
freeSmall, gradual changes are always easier
to make and sustainWe cant change because our
brains become hardwired early in lifeSource
Fast Company
219
EXCELLENCE. OFFENSE.
220
On NELSON other admirals more frightened of
losing than anxious to win
221
EnthusiasmEnergyExuberanceVoracious
CuriosityIrritability/Dis-satisfactionRelentless
nessSelf-relianceCloser (Execution)excellence

222
Leaders gotta say it!
223
No leader sets out to be a leader per se, but
rather to express him- or herself freely and
fully. That is, leaders have no interest in
proving themselves, but an abiding interest in
expressing themselves. Warren Bennis, On
Becoming a Leader
224
Everyone lives by selling something. Robert
Louis Stevenson
225
A year from now you may wish You had
started today. Karen Lamb
226
"Life is not a journey to the grave with the
intention of arriving safely in one pretty and
well preserved piece, but to skid across the line
broadside, thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking
oil, shouting GERONIMO! Bill McKenna,
professional motorcycle racer (Cycle magazine)
227
You only find oil if you drill wells. The
Hunters, by John Masters, Canadian O G
wildcatter
228
Its always showtime. David DAlessandro,
Career Warfare
229
EXCELLE ALWAYS.