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About one month ago, there was a bit of debate around so-called Management Gurus. Which lead to a bit of a dust up between Tom Peters and Jim Collins. There was talk about the lack of science behind Tom Peters MUST READ In Search of Excellence. Peters responded by talking about ISOE in the simple [...]

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I suppose I should start this review off with a disclaimer. I am Alan Webber’s target audience. He was a managing editor of the Harvard Business Review and the cofounding editor of Fast Company. I am a card carrying member of the Fast Company Nation and read HBR whenever something catches my eye.I am a [...]

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Ruth Smith writes a great post on the Tom Peters site on an engaged workforce. She says: “…engagement is more likely to occur when managers purposefully include, and share power with, people within the organisation, co-creating a way of working together with their teams.” You can do all the employee sat surveys you want, have as many [...]

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Picked this up from Tom Peters who I think picked it up from Guy Kawasaki. Excellent piece on the need for failure in order to achieve long term success.

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Rajesh Setty has a great post over on Tom Peters’ site listing the massive confusion around personal branding. This is something that I am coming to grips with lately. I believe in the Brand You. I believe in knowing yourself: your skills, what you excel at doing, what you LOVE doing. I also believe in [...]

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Great post from Rajesh Setty on tompeters.com I love Raj – he lists a set of questions you should be asking yourself if you are wondering if you are safe. 1. Is your job CORE to the company? (This is what happened to me.) 2. What will the company LOSE by eliminating this job? 3. [...]

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Tom Peters goes old school. Well…not that old…but he digs out 3 books he did in the 90′s. The Project 50: Fifty Ways to Transform Every “Task” into a Project That Matters! The Brand You 50 : Fifty Ways to Transform Yourself from an “Employee” into a Brand That Shouts Distinction, Commitment, and Passion! The [...]

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Another post from Tom Peters. I got behind this past week. This time from the WSJ – Unemployment: Worse Than it Looks. Some very disturbing numbers that tell the real story. Not the 6% unemployed propaganda. Just going to cut and paste the stats….with some commentary and not going to follow the rules….props to the [...]

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And again, he’s right. Hannah asked me the other day about a book and TP wrote about it today! It is starting to freak me out a little. Following up on my post from the other day about being in the moment, TP calls us out on meeting apathy/anger. I admit….I suffer from this. And [...]

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I love one of Tom Peters’ latest post: Take it From Your Old Pappy for many reasons. First, he’s right. Of course. “the goal, as in the goal, is always, as in always, to make the absolute most of the moment—because, to state the obvious but often ignored truism, the moment-this moment is all we [...]

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