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Cool Friend Dan Coyle has a terrific post on failure. On a recent Marketplace, Charles Handy advocated for becoming a Free Agent. BusinessWeek's feature of ski company K2's design and innovation process teaches an important lesson on focusing on the user of your product...
Bonnie Gray
Hi Tom. I am a huge fan. You probably don't remember me but you signed my "Trends" book at the ASIS
Conference in Las Vegas 2 yrs. ago. Great to see you are still going
strong.....you were so right about marketing to women...and they are
finally "getting it". I still love that book....Thanks!
We continue our The Little BIG Things video series with "Out-Read the Other Guy." Tom reminds us that a key to success is reading. Staying informed and developing your analytical skills is essential. You can find the video on the top of the right column here on the front page...
[Our guest blogger is Abbey Bishop. Abbey is the Executive Director of Events for Tom but more importantly today, she is the wife of a soldier...
[Our guestblogger is Cool Friend Rajesh Setty. Learn more about him at his site, his blog, or follow him on Twitter.] Teddy Roosevelt said, "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care." So, how do you know you are caring enough...
On Friday, Tom was the closing speaker at the 2009 Urban Land Institute Fall Meeting and Urban Land Expo at Moscone Center in [glorious, matchless, delightful—TP] San Francisco. We'd love to hear from you if you happened to attend the event, and the PPT file is here.
Tom's public seminar yesterday was hosted by King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in Dhahran. "KFU is as good as it gets in its field," Tom reports. "I had a lovely time. I think we got some good work done—and had a lovely time along the way. ...
I've been fooling around with a lot of formats for recent events in the likes of Luanda, Riyadh, Dhahran, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Toronto. I've also been folding some of the stuff in the new book into my presentations...
Scott
I got this quote from you today, and I don't get it. Since I don't have the foggiest idea what this quote means, I must have a HUGE blind spot. Today's TP quote is:
"I urge you to become ... An organizational Zen master. A sumo wrestler. A Master of Indirection. An "accentuator of the positive."
--Tom Peter
Can anyone share some insight for me?
As mentioned previously, Tom's been busily working on a new book. The Little BIG Things: 163 Ways to Pursue Excellence will be published early next year. Our talented friends at Enterprise Media captured Tom's thoughts during an early draft stage of the book...
Tom's on the road again, this time speaking to the International Conference on Administrative Development: Towards Excellence in Public Sector Performance, in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. If you attended the event which took place earlier today, please let us hear from you in the comments...
I love the book Nudge—the content's pretty good, the title even better! But I hate—literally hate—the title of the genre. Namely, "behavioral economics." Oh for God's sake. Behavioral economics? Trans...
Lucky boy. (He said for the 1000th time.) Had a lovely full-day seminar with wonderful folks in Luanda, Angola...
We have some new friends, and they've started the relationship off nicely by posting videos of Tom on their website. Anthony Gell, who's the founder of The Business Voice, bvo.com, convinced Tom to sit for an interview. They taped it, divided it into topics, and posted it on their website...
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