[via @rgumente]
Tom Peters has his own blog!
Good and fresh inputs for innovation, renewal, rethinking. You can also find a lot of the Powerpoint presentations of Tom Peters. I find them…honestly awful from a visual point of view. I know, I know, that’s not the most important dimension, but anyway, this…. On the other side, I haven’t studied all the material but I already extracted some interesting refreshing thoughts:
Everything You Need to Know about “Strategy”
1. Do you have awesome Talent … everywhere? Do you push that Talent to pursue Audacious Quests?
2. Is your Talent Pool loaded with wonderfully peculiar people who others would call “problems”? And what about your Extended Community of customers, vendors et al?
3. Is your Board of Directors as exciting as your product offerings and does it have 50 percent (or at least one-third) Women Members?
4. Long-term, it’s a “Top-line World”: Is creating a “culture” that cherishes above all things Innovation and Entrepreneurship your primary aim? Remember: Innovation … not Imitation!
5. Are the Ultimate Rewards heaped upon those who exhibit an unswerving “Bias for Action”, to quote the co-authors of In Search of Excellence?
6. Do you routinely use hot, aspirational words-terms like Excellence and B.H.A.G. (Big Hairy Audacious Goal, per Jim Collins) and “Let’s make a dent in the Universe” (the Word according to Steve Jobs)? Is “Reward excellent failures, punish mediocre successes” your de facto or de jure motto?
7. Do you subscribe to Jerry Garcia’s dictum: “We do not merely want to be the best of the best, we want to be the only ones who do what we do”?
8. Do you elaborate on and enhance Jerry G’s dictum by adding, “We subscribe to ‘Best Sourcing’ and only want to associate with the ‘best of the best’”
9. Do you embrace the new technologies with child-like enthusiasm and a revolutionary’s zeal?
10. Do you “serve” and “satisfy” customers … or “go berserk” attempting to provide every customer with an “awesome experience” that does nothing less than transform the way she or he sees the world?
11. Do you understand … to your very marrow … that the two biggest under-served markets are Women and Boomers-Geezers? And that to “take advantage” of these two Monster “Trends” (FACTS OF LIFE) requires fundamental re-alignment of the enterprise?
12. Are your leaders accessible? Do they wear their passion on their sleeves? Does integrity ooze out of every pore of the enterprise? Is “We care” your implicit motto?
13. Do you understand Business Mantra #1 of the ’00s: DON’T TRY TO COMPETE WITH WAL*MART ON PRICE OR CHINA ON COST? (And if you get this last idea, then see the 12 above!)
The rest in the coming days!