We spent some hours in the Ecomusee today. Really a nice place! They celebrated their 20 years birthday last week-end and their 5’900’000 visitors. Respect!
WEEK-END: Ecomusee, again :-)
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BUSINESS: Tom Peters (3/3)
The sun is setting on the Information Society even before we have fully adjusted to its demands as individuals and as companies. We have lived as hunters and as farmers, we have worked in factories and now we live in an information-based society whose icon is the computer. We stand facing the fifth kind of society: the Dream Society. The Dream Society is emerging this very instant the shape of the future is visible today. Right now is the time for decisions before the major portion of consumer purchases are made for emotional, nonmaterialistic reasons. Future products will have to appeal to our hearts, not to our heads. Now is the time to add emotional value to products and services.
I never, ever thought of myself as a businessman. I was interested in creating things I would be proud of.
Rules of Radical Marketing
Love + Respect Your Customers!
Hire only Passionate Missionaries!
Create a Community of Customers!
Celebrate Craziness!
Be insanely True to the Brand!
The leaders of Great Groups love talent and know where to find it. They revel in the talent of others.
Did We Say “Talent Matters”?
The top software developers are more productive than average software developers not by a factor of 10X or 100X, or even 1,000X, but 10,000X.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
The leader must have infectious optimism. The final test of a leader is the feeling you have when you leave his presence after a conference. Have you a feeling of uplift and confidence?
NEWS: neutrality….no, it can’t be!
[via LeDanois via Russell Beattie]
The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.
-Dante Alighieri
One of the first posts of October for an important topic: I know that the US citizens will choose in about one month. Bush or Kerry? Umh, I am not a US citizen but I am a citizen of this world and I would like to clearly, and without any doubts, vote blog for Kerry! The worst is surely … neutrality!
I already posted two times about that here and specially here. A lot to read in the blogosphere but you could find some clear inputs and statements for Kerry (or against Bush ;-) by LeDanois, Rodrigo, and Dragos.
So let’s express your vote intention too!
NEWS: Despair, Inc. – Part II
BUSINESS: Tom Peters (2/3)
Follow your passions.
Keep it simple.
Get the best people to help you.
Re-create yourself.
Play.
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!
The world has arrived at a rare strategic inflection point where nearly half its population living in China, India and Russia have been integrated into the global market economy, many of them highly educated workers, who can do just about any job in the world. We’re talking about three billion people.
This is an essay about what it takes to create and sell something remarkable. It is a plea for originality, passion, guts and daring. You can’t be remarkable by following someone else who’s remarkable. One way to figure out a theory is to look at what’s working in the real world and determine what the successes have in common. But what could the Four Seasons and Motel 6 possibly have in common? Or Neiman-Marcus and Wal*Mart? Or Nokia (bringing out new hardware every 30 days or so) and Nintendo (marketing the same Game Boy 14 years in a row)? It’s like trying to drive looking in the rearview mirror. The thing that all these companies have in common is that they have nothing in common. They are outliers. They’re on the fringes. Superfast or superslow. Very exclusive or very cheap. Extremely big or extremely small. The reason its so hard to follow the leader is this: The leader is the leader precisely because he did something remarkable. And that remarkable thing is now taken so it’s no longer remarkable when you decide to do it.
NEWS: it’s not just depressing, it’s positively negative
[via Pierre Carion – in French]
You REALLY have to see this website, it’s so funny. It’s about demotivating people :-) The company’s name is “Despair, Inc.”. So great! Some examples:
NEWS: advice :-)
TOOLS: K-Lite video codec
Are you also confronted with this never-ending-story concerning all these audio & video codecs? I personaly got this problem till I installed the incredible package from K-Lite. Really a must-have if you do not want to install Quicktime and/or RealPlayer (both remain quite intrusive to my mind) and if you do not want to waste time by searching the new version of hundreds of codecs (I’m exagerating a bit ;-).
K-Lite Codec Pack is a collection of codecs and related tools. Codec is short for Compressor-decompressor. Codecs are needed for encoding and decoding (playing) audio and video. The K-Lite Codec Pack is designed as a user-friendly solution for playing all your movie files. With the K-Lite Codec Pack you should be able to play 99% of all the movies that you download from the internet.
The K-Lite Codec Pack has a couple of major advantages compared to other codec packs:
* It it always up-to-date with the latest versions of the codecs.
* It is very user-friendly and the installation is fully customizable, meaning that you can install only those components that you really want.
* It has been very well tested, so that the package doesn’t contain any conflicting codecs.
* It is a very complete package, containing everything you need to play your movies.Mega Codec Pack includes everything needed to play online and offline computer media. This pack is from the makers of the K-lite codec pack. This version includes the Full K-lite codec pack as well as Quicktime and Realplayer codecs, and BS Player. This Pack includes codecs for the most popular compressions like Divx and Xvid as well as some of the less popular but still necesary codecs. This is your one stop codec resource.
BUSINESS: Tom Peters (1/3)
[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!
MUSIC: Mercedes Mixed Tape 03
Mercedes just launched the third release of its Mixed Tape compilation. I’ve already posted about it in August. Extract from the Mercedes-Benz Mixed Tape Newsletter:
Mixed Tape 03 is now online – brand new tracks from around the world!
Mixed Tape, the free music compilation by Mercedes-Benz, returns with its third instalment: until November 23rd 04 you can discover, download and enjoy 15 exceptional new tracks by international artists at http://www.mercedes-benz.com/mixedtape
This time, we are especially proud to present cult star Mocky who opens the compilation with his inspired “How Will I Know“.
In addition, we have tracked down many exciting new discoveries between Budapest, Los Angeles and Malmö: whether glamorous lounge sound (4 To The Bar), dynamic hip-hop (Sol Uprising), dreamy pop (Adria) or cool downbeat (The Tape) – once more Mixed Tape 03 assembles intelligent, cosmopolitan tracks from around the world.
