Tom Peters’ 2002 We Are In A Brawl With No Rules! Detroit/02.07.2002.

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Tom Peters’ 2002

We Are In A Brawl With No

Rules!Detroit/02.07.2002

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“There will be more

confusion in the business world in the next decade than in any decade in history. And the current pace of

change will only accelerate.”Steve Case

The Age of …Chaos/Convulsion/Re-definition/Risk/Opportu

nity: Kmart … Gap … DVDs: Wal*Mart vs. Blockbuster/Warner vs. The World … AOL Time

Warner … Enron … UAL/Leasing & Balance sheets … Andersen … Credibility/ Intangibles/

Intellectual Property/ Branding … Service sector productivity … Cisco … Tyco … Global

Crossing … IBM procures $45B (90%) on the Web, saves 0.5B … IBM & Web ed … 401(k)s …

Job & Work & Employment Redefinition … Security/Uncertainty/Terrorism …

Infotech/Biotech … Etc. … Etc.

N.W.O./Age of Ephemeral: “With lots of sentiment and image built into the Harley stock, even slight hints of trouble

can send it into a violent slide.”

Source: BW/02.11.2002

<1000A.D.: paradigm shift: 1000s of years1000: 100 years for paradigm shift

1800s: > prior 900 years1900s: 1st 20 years > 1800s

2000: 10 years for paradigm shift

21st century: 1000X tech

change than 20th century (“the ‘Singularity,’ a merger between humans and computers that is so rapid and profound it

represents a rupture in the fabric of human history”)

Ray Kurzweil

The Destruction Imperative.

Forbes100 from 1917 to 1987: 39 members of the Class of ’17 were alive

in ’87; 18 in ’87 F100; 18 F100 “survivors” underperformed the market

by 20%; just 2 (2%), GE & Kodak, outperformed the market 1917 to 1987.

S&P 500 from 1957 to 1997: 74 members of the Class of ’57 were

alive in ’97; 12 (2.4%) of 500 outperformed the market from 1957 to 1997.

Source: Dick Foster & Sarah Kaplan, Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market

“Good management was the most powerful reason [leading firms] failed to stay atop their industries. Precisely because these firms

listened to their customers, invested aggressively in technologies that would provide their customers more

and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and

systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost

their positions of leadership.”

Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma

Confusion Reigns.

A White Collar Revolution.

108 X 5vs.

8 X 1= 540 vs. 8 (-98.5%)

The Pincer 5

1. “Destructive” entrepreneurs/ Global Competition

2. “White Collar Robots”

3. THE INTERNET! [E.g.: GM + Ford + DaimlerChrysler]

4. Global Outsourcing [E.g.: India, Mexico]

5. Speed!!

IBM’s Project

“Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic

makeup, computer-generated robots will take

over the world.” – Stephen

Hawking, in the German magazine Focus

The Pincer 5

1. “Destructive” entrepreneurs/ Global Competition

2. “White Collar Robots”

3. THE INTERNET! [E.g.: GM + Ford + DaimlerChrysler]

4. Global Outsourcing [E.g.: India, Mexico]

5. Speed!!

N.W.O./Holy Moly!

Unemployment up 2% … Real wage growth highest since 60s … Productivity soaring.

Source: BW/02.11.2002

New Org I: IS/IT … “On the Bus” or “Off the Bus.”

Dell’s OptiPlex Facility

Big Job: 6 to 8 hours.(80,000 per day)

Parts Inventory: 100 square feet.

Cisco!

90% of $20B (=$50M/day)Annual savings in service

and support from customer self-management: $550M (P.S.: C.Sat e >> C.Sat h)

The Real “News”: X1,000,000

TowTruckNet.com

WebWorld = Everything

Web as a way to run your business’s innardsWeb as connector for your entire supply-demand chain Web as “spider’s web” which re-conceives the industry

Web/B2B as ultimate wake-up call to “commodity producers”

Web as the scourge of slack, inefficiency, sloth, bureaucracy, poor customer data

Web as an Encompassing Way of LifeWeb = Everything (P.D. to after-sales)

Web forces you to focus on what you do bestWeb as entrée, at any size, to World’s Best at Everything

as next door neighbor

Message: eCommerce is not a technology play! It is a

relationship, partnership, organizational and

communications play, made possible by new

technologies.

Message: There is no such thing as an effective B2B or

Internet-supply chain strategy in a low-trust,

bottlenecked-communication, six-layer

organization.

“Ebusiness is about rebuilding the organization from the

ground up. Most companies today are not built to exploit the Internet.

Their business processes, their approvals, their hierarchies, the

number of people they employ … all of that is wrong for running an

ebusiness.”

Ray Lane, Kleiner Perkins

“Suppose – just suppose – that the Web is a new world we’re just beginning to inhabit. We’re like the earlier European settlers in the United States, living on the

edge of the forest. We don’t know what’s there and we don’t know exactly what we need to do to find out: Do we pack mountain climbing gear, desert wear, canoes, or all three? Of course while the settlers may not have

known what the geography of the New World was going to be, they at least knew that there was a geography. The Web, on the other hand, has no

geography, no landscape. It has no distance. It has nothing natural in it. It has few rules of behavior and fewer lines of authority. Common sense doesn’t hold

here, and uncommon sense hasn’t yet emerged.” David Weinberger, Small Pieces Loosely Joined

Amazon does profit: Employment the same with 35% more

shipments … Inventory down 18%, while sales grew 15% … 40% consolidated full-truck shipments,

up from 0% … etc.

Source: BW/02.04.02

New Org II: “PSF” …The Professional

Service Firm Model.

So what will be the Basic Building

Block of the New Org?

Every job done in W.C.W. is

also done “outside”

…for profit!

Answer: PSF![Professional Service Firm]

Department Head

to …

Managing Partner, HR [IS, etc.] Inc.

TP to NAPM: You are the …

Rock Stars of the

B2B Age!

“P.S.F.”: Summary

H.V.A. Projects (100%)Pioneer Clients

WOW Work (see below)Hot “Talent” (see below)“Adventurous” “culture”

Proprietary Point of View (Methodology)W.W.P.F. (100%)/Outside Clients (25%++)

BMW’s Designworks/USA:

>50% from outside work

eHR*/PCC***All HR on the Web

**Productivity Consulting Center

Source: E-HR: A Walk through a 21st Century HR Department, John Sullivan, IHRIM

Model PSF …

(1) Translate ALL departmental activities into discrete W.W.P.F. “Products.”(2) 100% go on the Web.

(3) Non-awesome are outsourced (75%??).

(4) Remaining “Centers of Excellence” are retained & leveraged to the hilt!

New Org III : PSF Unbound … the Heart

of the Value-added Revolution.

Animating Force: The Sameness Trap

“While everything may

be better, it is also increasingly the same.”

Paul Goldberger on retail, “The Sameness of Things,” The New York Times

“We make over three new product announcements a

day. Can you remember them?

Our customers can’t!”Carly Fiorina

What’s Special?

“Customers will try ‘low cost

providers’ … because the Majors have not given them any clear reason

not to.”Leading Insurance Industry Analyst (10-98)

SWA = American +

Continental + Delta + Northwest + United + USAirways.

Source: Boston Globe (12.22.2001)

“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of

similar companies, employing

similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up

with similar ideas, producing

similar things, with similar prices

and similar quality.”

Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, Funky Business

The Big Day!

09.11.2000: HP bids

$18,000,000,000for

PricewaterhouseCoopersconsulting business!

“These days, building the best server isn’t enough. That’s the

price of entry.”

Ann Livermore, Hewlett-Packard

HP … Sun … GE … IBM … UPS … UTC …

General Mills … Springs … Anheuser-Busch …

Carpet One … Delphi … Etc. … Etc.

“We want to be the air traffic

controllers of electrons.”

Bob Nardelli, GE Power Systems

“Customer Satisfaction” to “Customer Success”

“We’re getting better at [Six Sigma] every day. But we really

need to think about the customer’s profitability. Are customers’

bottom lines really benefiting from what we provide them?”

Bob Nardelli, GE Power Systems

Keep In Mind: Customer Satisfaction

versus Customer Success

“UPS wants to take over the sweet spot in the endless loop

of goods, information and capital that all the packages

[it moves] represent.”ecompany.com/06.01 (E.g., UPS Logistics

manages the logistics of 4.5M Ford vehicles, from 21 mfg. sites to 6,000 NA dealers)

New Springs = Turnkey

Collections.Flexible sourcing.

Packaging.Merchandising.

Promotion.Systems & Site mgt.

Getting Beyond Lip Service!

“No longer are we only an insurance provider. Today, we also offer our customers the products and services that help them achieve their

dreams, whether it’s financial security, buying a car, paying for home repairs, or even taking a dream vacation.”—Martin

Feinstein, CEO, Farmers Group

Omnicom: 57%

(of $6B) from marketing services

Who was the number one employer of

architecture school grads in the U.S.

last year?

The Pursuit of … Whatever:

Accenture to “do” AT&T’s sales & customer service … for

$2.6B/5 years … savings to

AT&T of 50%. Accenture to “do” Avaya’s corporate

learning & training. Source: BW (02.04.2002)

“VISIONS OF A BRAND-NAME OFFICE EMPIRE. Sam Zell is not a man plagued by self doubt. Mr. Zell controls public

companies that own nearly 700 office buildings in the United States. … Now Mr. Zell says he will

transform the real estate market by turning those REITs into national brands. … Mr. Zell

believes [clients] will start to view those offices as something more than a commodity chosen

chiefly by price and location.” –New York Times (12.16.2001)

PSF Unbound+ … It’s the

EXPERIENCE.

“Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from

goods.”Joseph Pine & James Gilmore, The Experience Economy:

Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage

Experience: “Rebel Lifestyle!”

“What we sell is the ability for a 43-year-old accountant to dress in black leather, ride

through small towns and have people be afraid of him.”

Harley exec, quoted in Results-Based Leadership

Bob Lutz: “I see us as being in the art business. Art,

entertainment and mobile sculpture, which,

coincidentally, also happens to provide transportation.”

Source: NYT 10.19.01

The “Experience Ladder”

Experiences Services

Goods Raw Materials

1940: Cake from flour, sugar (raw materials economy): $1.00

1955: Cake from Cake mix (goods economy): $2.00

1970: Bakery-made cake (service economy): $10.00

1990: Party @ Chuck E. Cheese (experience economy) $100.00

Message:

“Experience” is the

“Last 80%”

P.S.: “Experience” applies to all work!

1940: Cake from flour, sugar (raw materials economy): $1.00

1955: Cake from Cake mix (goods economy): $2.00

1970: Bakery-made cake (service

economy): $10.001990: Party @ Chuck E. Cheese

(experience economy) $100.00

The “Experience Ladder”

Experiences Services

Goods Raw Materials

Ladder Position Measure

Solutions Success

Services Satisfaction

Goods Six-sigma

Re-inventing the Individual: Ahoy

BRAND YOU.

“If there is nothing very special about your work, no matter how hard you apply

yourself, you won’t get noticed, and that

increasingly means you won’t get paid much either.”

Michael Goldhaber, Wired

New World of Work

< 1 in 10 F500#1: Manpower Inc.

Freelancers/I.C.: 16M-25MTemps: 3M (incl. CEOs & lawyers)

Microbusinesses: 12M-27MTotal: 31M-55M

Source: Daniel Pink, Free Agent Nation

Minimum New Work SurvivalSkillsKit2002

MasteryRolodex Obsession (vert. to horiz. “loyalty”)

Entrepreneurial InstinctCEO/Leader/Businessperson/Closer

Mistress of ImprovSense of Humor

Intense Appetite for TechnologyGroveling Before the Young

Embracing “Marketing”Passion for Renewal

Sam’s Secret #1!

Minimum New Work SurvivalSkillsKit2001

MasteryRolodex Obsession (vert. to horiz. “loyalty”)

Entrepreneurial InstinctCEO/Leader/Businessperson/Closer

Mistress of ImprovSense of Humor

Intense Appetite for TechnologyGroveling Before the Young

Embracing “Marketing”Passion for Renewal

“My ancestors were printers in Amsterdam from 1510 or so until

1750, and during that entire time they didn’t have to learn anything

new.”Peter Drucker, Business 2.0 (08.22.00)

“Knowledge becomes obsolete incredibly fast. The

continuing professional education of adults is the

No. 1 industry in the next 30 years … mostly on line.”

Peter Drucker,Business 2.0 (22August2000)

3 Weeks in May

“Training” & Prep: 187“Work”: 41

(“Other”: 17)

1% vs.

Divas do it. Violinists do it. Sprinters do it. Golfers do it.

Pilots do it. Soldiers do it. Surgeons do it. Cops do it.

Astronauts do it. Why don’t businesspeople do it

[very much]?

Conclusion: “We” are not

serious!

Invent. Reinvent. Repeat.

Source: HP banner ad

Redefining the Work

Itself I: B.H.A.G.s and WOW Projects.

“Reward excellent failures. Punish

mediocre successes.”

Phil Daniels, Sydney exec

Language matters! Wow! BHAG! “Takes

your breath away!”

Your Current Project?

1. Another day’s work/Pays the rent.4. Of value.7. Pretty Damn Cool/Definitely subversive.10. WE AIM TO CHANGE THE WORLD. (Insane!/Insanely Great!/WOW!)

Age 60. Yes: Show the job to your Grandson Billy: “This was

risky, but nobody had ever done a

cantilever like this before.” No: “Billy, we brought this in 17.3%

under budget.”

Re-defining the Work

Itself II: WOW Projects for the

“Powerless.”

Topic: Boss-free

Implementation of STM /Stuff That

MATTERS!

World’s Biggest Waste …

Selling “Up”

THE IDEA: Model F4

Find a Fellow

Freak Faraway

Heart of the Matter

F2F!/K2K!/1@T/R.F!A.*

*Freak to Freak/Kook to Kook/One at a Time/ Ready.Fire!Aim.

BOTTOM LINE

The Enemy!

Joe J. Jones Joe J. Jones 1942 – 2001 1942 – 2001

HE WOULDA DONE SOME HE WOULDA DONE SOME

REALLY COOL STUFF REALLY COOL STUFF

BUT …BUT …

HIS BOSS WOULDN’T LET HIM! HIS BOSS WOULDN’T LET HIM!

The greatest dangerfor most of us

is not that our aim istoo high

and we miss it,but that it is

too lowand we reach it.

Michelangelo

Characteristics of the “Also rans”*

“Minimize risk”“Respect the chain of

command”“Support the boss”

“Make budget”

*Fortune, article on “Most Admired Global Corporations”

Re-defining the Work Itself III:

Starting a Wow Projects Epidemic.

Premise: “Ordering” Systemic Change is a Stupid Waste

of Time!

Demos! Heroes! Stories!

Demo = Story

“A key – perhaps the key – to leadership is the

effective communication of a story.”

Howard Gardner, Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership

MBSA!*

*Managing By Story-ing Around/David Armstrong

Each VP a V.C.: Portfolio of high-risk

investments … in people/ideas … from

all across the company.

G.M. … V.C. … W.P. …

M.B.S.A.

“The” Unsung Work Tool: Design Mindfulness.

What is it?

Bottom Line.

Design “is” … WHAT & WHY I LOVE.

I LOVE my ZYLISS Garlic Peeler!

Design “is” … WHY I

GET MAD. MAD.

Wanted: THE DESIGNER OF MY

RADIO SHACK PHONE. Major

Reward!

Design is never neutral.

Hypothesis: DESIGN is the principal difference

between love and hate!

Design’s place in the universe.

And Tomorrow …

“Fifteen years ago companies competed on price. Now it’s

quality. Tomorrow it’s design.”

Robert Hayes

Design Transforms even the [Biggest] Corporations!

TARGET … “the champion of America’s new design democracy” (Time) “Marketer of the Year 2000”

(Advertising Age)

All Equal Except …

“At Sony we assume that all products of our competitors have basically the same

technology, price, performance and

features. Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the

marketplace.”Norio Ohga

“Design is treated like a religion at

BMW.”Fortune

“The new Beetle fails at most categories. The only

thing it doesn’t fail in is

drop-dead charm.”Jerry Hirshberg, Nissan Design International

Object of Desire!

“Every now and then, a design comes along that radically changes the way we think about a particular object. Case in

point: the iMac. Suddenly, a computer

is no longer an anonymous box. It is a sculpture, an object of desire, something that you look at.”

Katherine McCoy & Michael McCoy, Illinois Institute of Technology

“We don’t have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people’s

vocabularies, design means veneer. … But to me, nothing could be further from the

meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul

of a man-made creation.”

Steve Jobs

“The good 10 percent of American product design comes

out of big-idea companies that don’t believe in talking to the

customer. They're run by passionate maniacs who make everybody’s life miserable until

they get what they want.”

Bran Ferren, Applied Minds/Wired 1-2001

Check Out the Language:

“Tomorrow it’s design …”“Design is the only thing …”

“Design is … religion ...”“Drop-dead charm …”“Object of desire …”

“Fundamental soul …”“Passionate maniacs …”

Design+ = Beautiful Systems.

SIMPLICITY RULES!

Fred S.’s “mediocre” thesis. Herb K.’s

napkin.

Read It Closely: “We don’t sell

insurance anymore. We sell speed.”

Peter Lewis, Progressive

Great design = One-page

business plan (Jim Horan)

K.I.S.S.: Gordon Bell (VAX

daddy): 500/50. Chas.

Wang (CA): Behind schedule?

Cut least productive 25%.

“Most companies would do more business on the Internet if they

fired their entire marketing department and replaced it with

people who could produce interactive content that actually made it easier for users to buy.”

Jakob Nielsen, Nielsen Norman Group

Systems: Must have. Must

hate. / Must design. Must un-

design.

“Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to

get things done.” – P.D.

Mgt. Team

includes … EVP (S.O.U.B.)

Executive Vice President, Stomping Out Unnecessary Bullshit

First Steps: “Beauty Contest”!

1. Select one form/document: invoice, air bill, sick leave policy, customer returns-claim form.

2. Rate the selected doc on a scale of 1 to 10 [1 = Bureaucratica Obscuranta/ Sucks; 10 = Work

of Art] on four dimensions: Beauty. Grace. Clarity. Simplicity.

3. Re-invent!4. Repeat, with a new selection, every 15 working

N.W.O. I: Brand = Talent

“When land was the scarce resource, nations battled

over it. The same is happening now for talented people.”

Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, futureWEALTH

The Talent Ten

1. Obsession

P.O.T.* = All Consuming

*Pursuit of Talent

Model 24/7*: Sports Franchise GM

*25/8/53

“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

2. Greatness

Only The Best!

From “1, 2 or you’re out” [JW] to …

“Best Talent in each industry segment to build

best proprietary intangibles” [EM]

Source: Ed Michaels, War for Talent (05.17.00)

3. Performance

Up or out!

“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 (05.17.00)

Message: Some people are better than other

people. Some people are a helluva lot better than other

people.

4. Pay

Fork Over!

“Top performing companies are two to four times more likely

than the rest to pay what it takes to prevent losing

top performers.”

Ed Michaels, War for Talent (05.17.00)

5. Youth

Grovel Before the Young!

“Why focus on these late teens and twenty-

somethings? Because they are the first young who are both in a position to change the world, and are actually doing so. … For the first time in history,

children are more comfortable, knowledgeable and literate than their parents about an

innovation central to society. … The Internet has triggered the first industrial revolution in history

to be led by the young.”

The Economist [12/2000]

6. Diversity

Mess Rules!

“Diversity defines the health and wealth of nations in a new century.

Mighty is the mongrel. … The hybrid is hip. The impure, the mélange, the adulterated, the

blemished, the rough, the black-and-blue, the mix-and-match – these people are inheriting

the earth. Mixing is the new norm. Mixing trumps isolation. It spawns creativity,

nourishes the human spirit, spurs economic growth

and empowers nations.”

G. Pascal Zachary, The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge

7. Women

Born to Lead!

“AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE: New Studies find that female managers

outshine their male counterparts in almost

every measure”Title, Special Report, Business Week, 11.20.00

The New Economy …

Shout goodbye to “command and control”!

Shout goodbye to hierarchy!

Shout goodbye to “knowing one’s place”!

Women’s 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

Source: Judy B. Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret

“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 day’s events? Who is

better at keeping in touch with others?”

Source: Selling Is a Woman’s Game: 15 Powerful Reasons Why Women Can Outsell Men, Nicki Joy & Susan Kane-Benson

“Investors are looking more and more for a relationship with their financial

advisers. They want someone they can trust, someone who listens. In my experience, in general,

women may be better at these relationship-building skills than are

men.”

Hardwick Simmons, CEO, Prudential Securities

Okay, you think I’ve gone tooooo far.

How about this: DO ANY OF YOU SUFFER

FROM TOO MUCH TALENT?

63 of 2,500 top earners in F500

8% Big 5 partners

14% partners at top 250 law firms

43% new med students; 26% med

faculty; 7% deans

Source: Susan Estrich, Sex and Power

8. Weird

The Cracked Ones Let in the Light!

The Cracked Ones Let in the Light

“Our business needs a massive transfusion of talent, and talent, I believe, is most likely to be found

among non-conformists, dissenters and rebels.”

David Ogilvy

“Are there enough weird people in

the lab these days?”V. Chmn., pharmaceutical house, to a lab director (06.01)

9. Opportunity

Make It an Adventure!

“H.R.” to “H.E.D.” ???

Enablement

Department

Titles!

Manager HRIS to Manager Human Capital

Assets or Manager Employee Marketing*

*IHRIM.link (2-3.2001)

10. Leading Genius

We are all unique!

Beware Lurking HR Types … One size

NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period.

48 Players = 48 Projects =

48 different success measures

MantraM3

Talent = Brand

What’s your company’s …

EVP?Employee Value Proposition, per Ed

Michaels et al., The War for Talent

EVP = Challenge, professional growth, respect, satisfaction, opportunity, reward

Source: Ed Michaels et al., The War for Talent

Trends I: Speaking of …

Women.

Women & the Marketspace.

?????????

Home Furnishings … 94%Vacations … 92%

Houses … 91%Consumer Electronics … 51%

Cars … 60% (90%)All consumer purchases … 83%

Bank Account … 89%Health Care … 80%

Riding Lawnmowers

2/3rds working women/50+% working wives > 50%

80% checks61% bills

53% stock (mutual fund boom)

43% > $500K95% financial decisions/

29% single handed

$4.8T > Japan

9M/27.5M/$3.6T > Germany

New golfers … 37%Basketball … 13.5M

1 in 27 (’70) … 1 in 3 (’96)

1874 … Jock Strap1977 … Jogbra

1977 ... 25K

1996 … 42M

1970 … 1%

2002 … 50%

OPPORTUNITY

NO. 1!*[* No shit!]

Carol Gilligan/ In a Different Voice

Men: Get away from authority, familyWomen: Connect

Men: Self-orientedWomen: Other-oriented

Men: RightsWomen: Responsibilities

FemaleThink/ Popcorn

“Men and women don’t think the same way, don’t communicate the same

way, don’t buy for the same reasons.”

“He simply wants the transaction to take place. She’s interested in

creating a relationship. Every place women go, they make

connections.”

“Men seem like loose cannons. Men always move faster through a store’s

aisles. Men spend less time looking. They usually don’t like asking where things are.

You’ll see a man move impatiently through a store to the section he wants,

pick something up, and then, almost abruptly he’s ready to buy. … For a

man, ignoring the price tag is almost a sign of virility.”

Paco Underhill, Why We Buy* (*Buy this book!)

Read This: Barbara & Allan Pease’s

Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps

“It is obvious to a woman when another woman is upset, while a man generally has to physically witness

tears or a temper tantrum or be slapped in the face before he even has a clue that anything is going on. Like most female mammals, women are equipped with far more finely tuned

sensory skills than men.” Barbara & Allan Pease, Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps

“Resting” State: 30%, 90%: “A woman knows her children’s

friends, hopes, dreams, romances, secret fears, what they are

thinking, how they are feeling. Men are vaguely aware of some short people also living in the house.”

Barbara & Allan Pease, Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps

“As a hunter, a man needed vision that would allow him to zero in on targets in the distance … whereas a woman needed eyes

to allow a wide arc of vision so that she could monitor any predators sneaking up on the nest. This is why modern men can find their way effortlessly to a distant pub,

but can never find things in fridges, cupboards or drawers.”

“Female hearing advantage contributes significantly to what is

called ‘women’s intuition’ and is one of the reasons why a woman can read between the lines of what people say. Men, however, shouldn’t despair.

They are excellent at imitating animal sounds.”

Read This Book …

EVEolution: The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women

Faith Popcorn & Lys Marigold

EVEolution: Truth No. 1

Connecting Your Female Consumers to Each

Other Connects Them to Your Brand

“The ‘Connection Proclivity’ in women starts early. When asked,

‘How was school today?’ a girl usually tells her mother every

detail of what happened, while a boy might grunt, ‘Fine.’ ”

EVEolution

“Women don’t buy

brands. They join them.”

EVEolution

“Year of the Woman”

Enterprise Reinvention!

RecruitingHiring/Rewarding/Promoting

Structure Processes

MeasurementStrategyCulture Vision

Leadership

THE BRAND ITSELF!

“Honey, are you sure you have

the kind of money it takes to

be looking at a car like this?”

STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY: I am a businessperson. An analyst. A pragmatist. The enormous social good of increased women’s

power is clear to me; but it is not my bailiwick. My “game” is haranguing business leaders

about my fact-based conviction that women’s increasing power – leadership skills

and purchasing power – is the strongest and most dynamic force at work in the American

economy today. Dare I say it as a long-time Palo Alto resident … THIS IS EVEN BIGGER THAN

THE INTERNET!

Tom Peters

27 March 2000: email to TP from Shelley Rae Norbeck

“I make 1/3rd more money than my husband does. I have as much financial

‘pull’ in the relationship as he does. I’d say this is also true of most of my women

friends. Someone should wake up, smell the coffee and kiss our asses long enough

to sell us something! We have money to

spend and nobody wants it!”

Psssst! Wanna see my “porn” collection?

“If we are single, they say we couldn’t catch a man. If we are

married, they say we are neglecting him. If we are divorced,

they say we couldn’t keep him. If we are widowed, they say we

killed him.”Kathleen Brown, on the joys of female political candidacy

Ad from Furniture /Today (04.01):“MEET WITH THE EXPERTS!: How

Retailing’s Most Successful Stay that Way”

Presenting Experts: M = 16;

F = ?? (94% = 272)

Whose pelvis is it, anyway?

Stupid!

Trends II: Welcome to “Old World.”

“ ‘Age Power’ will rule the 21st century, and we are woefully

unprepared.”Ken Dychtwald, Age Power: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old

Subject: Marketers & Stupidity

“It’s 18-44, stupid!”

Subject: Marketers & Stupidity

Or is it: “18-44 is stupid,

stupid!”

2000-2010 Stats

18-44: -1%

55+: +21%(55-64: +47%)

“NOT ACTING THEIR AGE: As Baby Boomers

Zoom into Retirement, Will America Ever Be the

Same?”USN&WR Cover/06.01

Member Growth: 1987 – 1997

18 – 34: 26%35 – 49: 63%

50+: 118%Source: IHRSA

Aging/“Elderly”

$$$$$$$$$$$$“I’m in charge!”

$7T wealth (70%)/$2T annual income50% all discretionary spending

79% own homes/40M credit card users41% new cars/48% luxury

$610B healthcare spending/74% prescription drugs

5% of advertising targets

Ken Dychtwald, Age Power: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old

Stupid!

No: “Target Marketing”

Yes: “Target

Innovation” & “Target Delivery Systems”

N.W.O. II, New Org IV

& Reprise: THINK WEIRD … the H.V.A.

Bedrock.

THINK WEIRD: The High Standard

Deviation Enterprise.

Saviors-in-Waiting

Disgruntled CustomersOff-the-Scope Competitors

Rogue EmployeesFringe Suppliers

Wayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision: Beat the Competition by Focusing on Fringe Competitors, Lost Customers, and Rogue Employees

CUSTOMERS: “Future-defining customers may

account for only 2% to 3% of your total, but they represent a crucial

window on the future.”Adrian Slywotzky, Mercer Consultants

COMPETITORS: “The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear

the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a

sword in his hand before; he doesn’t do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn’t

prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do and often it catches the expert out and

ends him on the spot.”

Mark Twain

Employees: “Are there enough weird

people in the lab these days?”

V. Chmn., pharmaceutical house, to a lab director (06.01)

Suppliers: There is an ominous downside to strategic supplier

relationships. An SSR supplier is not likely to function as any more than a mirror to your organization. Fringe suppliers that offer innovative business practices need

not apply.”

Wayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision: Beat the Competition by Focusing on Fringe Competitors, Lost Customers, and Rogue Employees

WEIRD IDEAS THAT WORK: (1) Hire slow learners (of the organizational code). (1.5) Hire people who make you

uncomfortable, even those you dislike. (2) Hire people you (probably) don’t need. (3) Use job interviews to get ideas, not

to screen candidates. (4) Encourage people to ignore and defy superiors and peers. (5) Find some happy people and get them to fight. (6) Reward success and failure, punish inaction.

(7) Decide to do something that will probably fail, then convince yourself and everyone else that success is certain. (8) Think of

some ridiculous, impractical things to do, then do them. (9) Avoid, distract, and bore customers, critics, and anyone who just wants to talk about money. (10) Don’t try to learn anything from people who seem to have solved the problems you face.

(11) Forget the past, particularly your company’s success.

Bob Sutton, Weird Ideas that Work: 11½ Ideas for Promoting, Managing and Sustaining Innovation

The GM/VC “model” of

leadership.

N.W.O. III: It all adds up to …

THE BRAND.

“WHO ARE YOU [these days] ?”

TP to Client

“Most companies tend to equate branding with the company’s marketing. Design a new marketing

campaign and, voilà, you’re on course. They are wrong. The task is much bigger. It is about fulfilling our potential … not about a new logo, no matter how

clever. WHAT IS MY MISSION IN LIFE? WHAT DO I WANT TO CONVEY TO PEOPLE? HOW DO

I MAKE SURE THAT WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER THE WORLD IS ACTUALLY UNIQUE? The brand has to give of itself, the company has to give of itself, the management has to give of itself. To

put it bluntly, it is a matter of whether – or not – you want to be … UNIQUE … NOW.”

Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment

“We are in the twilight of a society based on data. As information and intelligence become the domain of computers, society will place more value on the one human ability that cannot be automated: emotion.

Imagination, myth, ritual - the language of emotion - will affect everything from our purchasing decisions

to how we work with others. Companies will thrive on the basis of their stories and myths. Companies will need to understand

that their products are less important than their stories.”

Rolf Jensen, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies

1st Law Mktg Physics: OVERT BENEFIT (Focus: 1 or 2 > 3 or 4/“One Great Thing.” Source #1: Personal Passion)

2ND Law: REAL REASON TO BELIEVE (Stand & Deliver!)

3RD Law: DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE (Execs Don’t Get It:

See the next slide.)

Source: Jump Start Your Business Brain, Doug Hall

2 Questions:

“How likely are you to purchase this new product or service?” (95% to 100% weighting by execs)

“How unique is this new product or service?” (0% to 5%*)

*No exceptions in 20 years – Doug Hall, Jump Start Your Business Brain

“Brand Promise” Exercise: (1) Who Are WE? (poem/novella/song, then 25

words.) (2) List three ways in which we are UNIQUE … to our Clients.

(3) Who are THEY (competitors)? (ID, 25 words.)

(4) List 3 distinct “us”/“them” differences. (5) Try “results” on your teammates. (6) Try ’em on a friendly Client. (7) Try ’em on a

skeptical Client!

The Heart of Branding …

“WHO ARE WE?”

WHAT’S OUR

STORY?

DO THE HOUSEKEEPERS & CLERKS “BUY

IT”? [ARE YOU V-E-R-Y SURE?]

“EXACTLY HOW ARE WE

DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT?”

“ WHY DOES IT MATTER TO

THE CLIENT?”

“EXACTLY HOW DO I PASSIONATELY CONVEY THAT

DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE TO THE

CLIENT ”

Leading in Totally Screwed

Up Times.

The Context.

“There will be more

confusion in the business world in the next decade than in any decade in history. And the current pace of

change will only accelerate.”Steve Case

Leadership50

The Basic Premise.

1. Leadership Is a …

Mutual Discovery Process.

Leaders-Teachers Do Not “Transform People”!

Instead leaders-mentors-teachers (1) provide a context which is marked by (2) access to a luxuriant portfolio of meaningful opportunities (projects) which

(3) allow people to fully (and safely, mostly—caveat: “they”

don’t engage unless they’re “mad about something”) express their innate curiosity and (4) engage in a vigorous

discovery voyage (alone and in small teams, assisted by an

extensive self-constructed network) by which those people (5) go to-create places they (and their mentors-teachers-

leaders) had never dreamed existed—and then the leaders-mentors-teachers (6) applaud like hell, stage

“photo-ops,” and ring the church bells 100 times to commemorate the bravery of their

“followers’ ” explorations!

1A. Leaders …

Cede Control.

“I don’t know.”

1B. Leaders Try … Not to Screw

Things Up

“Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’

consists making it difficult for people to get

things done.” – P.D.

The Leadership

Types.

2. Great Leaders on Snorting

Steeds Are Important – but

Great Talent Developers (Type I

Leadership) are the Bedrock of Organizations that Perform Over

the Long Haul.

25/8/53*(*Damn it!)

Whoops: Jack didn’t have a vision!

2A. “Just One”: Great Leading = Great

Mentoring.

Goal of the Year No. 1*: Find-Develop-Mentor

ONE Extraordinary Person.

*CEO, large financial advisory firm, April 2001

2B. Great Leaders are …

Great V.C.s.

“Basically [Omnicom’s John] Wren makes aggressive bets on entrepreneurs and

gives them tremendous autonomy, on the assumption that the risk-taking will pay off

in new ideas, connections, businesses, and, yes, revenues and profits. …

‘Omnicom operates like a venture-capital firm,’ says Sir Martin

Sorrell [of WPP].”

Business 2.0 (09.17.2001)

3. But Then Again, There Are Times When This “Cult of Personality”

(Type II Leadership) Stuff Actually Works!

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”

Napoleon

(+TP’s writing room pics)

4. Find the “Businesspeople”!

(Type III Leadership)

I.P.M. (Inspired Profit

Mechanic)

4A. All Organizations

Need the Golden Leadership

Triangle.

The Golden Leadership Triangle: (1) Creator-

Visionary … (2) Talent Fanatic-Mentor-V.C. …

(3) Inspired Profit Mechanic.

Project Team Golden Triangle

(1) Champion-Maniac. (2) Implementer-Pol. (3)

Schedule & Budgets Fanatic.

5. Leadership Mantra

#1: IT ALL DEPENDS!

Renaissance Men are … a snare, a

myth, a delusion!

6. The Leader Is Rarely/Never the Best Performer.

33 Division Titles. 26 League Pennants. 14

World Series: Earl Weaver—0. Tom Kelly—0. Jim Leyland—0.

Walter Alston—1AB. Tony LaRussa—132 games, 6 seasons. Tommy Lasorda—P, 26 games. Sparky

Anderson—1 season.

The Leadership

Dance.

7. Leaders …

SHOW UP!

P.S. …

Mark McCormack: 5,000 miles for a 5

min. meeting!

7A. Leaders … LOVE the

“If things seem under control, you’re just not

going fast enough.”

Mario Andretti

7B. Leadership

Is Improv!

Duct Tape Rules!

“Andrew Higgins, who built landing craft in WWII, refused to hire graduates of

engineering schools. He believed that they only teach you what you can’t do in engineering

school. He started off with 20 employees, and by the middle of the war had 30,000 working for him. He turned out 20,000 landing craft. D.D.

Eisenhower told me, ‘Andrew Higgins won the war for us. He did it without engineers.’ ”

Stephen Ambrose/Fast Company

8. Leaders Groove on

AMBIGUITY!

“Most of our predictions are based

on very linear thinking. That’s why they will

most likely be wrong.”Vinod Khosla, in “GIGATRENDS,” Wired 04.01

9. Leaders

The Kotler Doctrine:

1965-1980: R.A.F.(Ready.Aim.Fire.)

1980-1995: R.F.A.(Ready.Fire!Aim.)

1995-????: F.F.F.(Fire!Fire!Fire!)

9A. Leaders

Re-do.

“If Microsoft is good at anything, it’s avoiding the trap of worrying about criticism. Microsoft fails constantly.

They’re eviscerated in public for lousy

products. Yet they persist, through version after version, until they get

something good enough. Then they leverage the power they’ve gained in

other markets to enforce their standard.”Seth Godin, Zooming

10. BUT … Leaders

Know When to Wait.

Tex Schramm: The

“too hard” box!

Axioms: (1) Pick your battles carefully. (2) Sometimes inaction

promotes sorting out & preserves options.

11. Leaders …

DELIVER!

11A. Leaders

KNOW They Can Make a Difference!

“Leaders don’t

‘want to’ win.

Leaders ‘need to’ win.”

11B. Leaders Are …

Optimists.

Hackneyed but none the less

true: LEADERS SEE CUPS AS “HALF

FULL.”

Half-full Cups: “[Ronald Reagan] radiated an almost transcendent

happiness.”Lou Cannon, George (08.2000)

12. BUT … Leaders Are

Realists/Leaders Win Through LOGISTICS!

The “Gus Imperative”!

13. Leaders

FOCUS!

“To Don’t ” List

14. Leaders …

Set CLEAR DESIGN SPECS.

JackWorld/1@T: (1) Neutron Jack. (Banish bureaucracy.) (2) “1, 2 or out” Jack. (Lead or leave.) (3)

“Workout” Jack. (Empowerment,

GE style.) (4) 6-Sigma Jack. (5)

Internet Jack. (Throughout)

TALENT JACK!

Danger: S.I.O. (Strategic

Initiative Overload)

15. Leaders …

Send V-E-R-Y Clear Signals About

Design Specs!

Ridin’ with Roger: “What have you done to

DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE quality in the

last 90 days?”

It’s Relationships,

Stupid.

16. Leaders Trust in

TRUST!

Credibility!

16A. Leaders Infuse the Dreaded-All Important “Evaluation Process”

with CREDIBILITY!

25 = 100

17. Leaders …

Understand the Ultimate Power of RELATIONSHIPS.

“Women speak and hear a language of connection and intimacy, and men

speak and hear a language of status and independence. Men communicate to obtain information, establish their

status, and show independence. Women communicate to create

relationships, encourage interaction, and exchange feelings.”

Judy Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret

17A. Leaders

Wire the Joint!

Winners wire. Losers are

slaves to rank.

17B. Leaders Are

Natural EMPOWERMENT

FREAKS!

17C. Leaders Know …

Women Roar/ Women Rule.

“AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE: New Studies find that female managers

outshine their male counterparts in almost

every measure”Title, Special Report, Business Week, 11.20.00

Women’s 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

Source: Judy B. Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret

(17D. Oh Yeah … and Women Buy All the Stuff)

$4.8T > Japan

9M/27.5M/$3.6T > Germany

18. Leaders … Find & Feed Off

Supporters.

Jill Ker Conway: (1) On-campus renegades. (2) Alumnae: $$$$ to fund

programs that “the culture” wouldn’t

support.

Message JKC: (1) Leaders are Masters of the End Run. (2) Avoid the “Old Culture”—don’t confront

it. (3) You can’t change people, you can’t change “culture.” (4)

Instead you supplant them/surround them—We “select”

(DARWIN RULES!) “carriers” of the “new culture.”

If It Ain’t Broke … Break It.

19. Leaders …FORGET!/

Leaders … DESTROY!

Forget>“Learn”

“The problem is never how to get new, innovative

thoughts into your mind,

but how to get the old ones out.”

Dee Hock

“Good management was the most powerful reason [leading firms] failed to

stay atop their industries. Precisely because these firms listened to their customers, invested aggressively in technologies that would

provide their customers more and better products of the sort they wanted, and because

they carefully studied market trends and systematically allocated investment capital to

innovations that promised the best returns, they lost their positions of leadership.”

Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma

Cortez!

Leaders “dump the ones who brung ’em” —Nokia, HP, 3M, PerkinElmer, Corning, etc.

20. BUT … Leaders

Have to Deliver, So They Worry About “Throwing the Baby Out with the

Bathwater.”

“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t, Just Plain

Damned.”Subtitle in the chapter, “Own Up to the Great Paradox: Success

Is the Product of Deep Grooves/ Deep Grooves Destroy Adaptivity,” Liberation Management (1992)

21. Leaders …

HONOR THE USURPERS.

Saviors-in-Waiting

Disgruntled CustomersUpstart CompetitorsRogue EmployeesFringe Suppliers

Wayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision

22. Leaders …

HANG OUT WITH FREAKS!

The Cracked Ones Let in the Light

“Our business needs a massive transfusion of talent, and talent, I believe, is most likely to be found

among non-conformists, dissenters and rebels.”

David Ogilvy

Leaders know … WE BECOME WHO

WE HANG WITH!

23. Leaders Make [Lotsa] Mistakes

– and MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT!

Sam’s

Secret #1!

“Fail faster. Succeed sooner.”

David Kelley/IDEO

24. Leaders Make …

BIG MISTAKES!

“Reward excellent

failures. Punish mediocre successes.”

Phil Daniels, Sydney exec (and, de facto, Jack)

24A. Leaders Honor Mistakes & Create

“Blame-free ‘Cultures.’ ”

Accountability: YES!Never-ending witch

hunts: NO!

Winning By Acknowledging Failures

Wernher Von Braun, the Redstone missile engineer who “confessed” &

the bottle of champagne. Award to the sailor on the Carl Vinson—for reporting

the lost tool. Amy Edmondson & the successful nursing units with the

highest reported adverse drug events.Source: Karl Weick & Kathleen Sutcliffe, Managing the Unexpected

Create.

25. Leaders Know that

THERE’S MORE TO LIFE THAN “LINE EXTENSIONS.” Leaders Love to CREATE NEW

MARKETS.

No one ever made it into the Business Hall of Fame on a record of

“line extensions.”

“Acquisitions are about

buying market share. Our challenge is to create markets.

There is a big difference.” Peter Job, CEO, Reuters

The Top Creators of Shareholder Value

Accept depressed earnings for several quarters to support hot productExpense rather than capitalize new venture costs

Bonuses without caps

Source: Fortune (09.17.201)

26. Leaders Pursue

DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE!

1st Law Mktg Physics: OVERT BENEFIT (Focus: 1 or 2 > 3 or 4/“One Great Thing.”

Source #1: Personal Passion)

2ND Law: REAL REASON TO BELIEVE (Stand & Deliver!)

3RD Law: DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE (Execs Don’t Get It: “intent to purchase” – 100%; “unique” – 0% to

Source: Jump Start Your Business Brain, Doug Hall

The greatest dangerfor most of us

is not that our aim istoo high

and we miss it,but that it is

too lowand we reach it.

Michelangelo

26A. Leaders … Make Their Mark /

Leaders … Do Stuff That Matters

Ideas > Leadership

“Today the problem is not how to produce more to sell more.

The fundamental question is that of the product’s right to exist. And it is the designer’s right and duty to question the

legitimacy of the product.”

Philippe Starck

NO: “Good gov’t”

YES: EFFECTIVE Gov’t (in altered/ambiguous

times)

“By combining powerful computer technology and other

modern information-based systems we could make a

revitalized, leaner military force that is designed to outsee,

outmaneuver and outfight any foe.” --Bill Owens, Lifting the Fog of War

27. Leaders Push Their

Organizations W-a-y Up the Value-added/

Intellectual Capital Chain

09.11.2000: HP bids

$18,000,000,000for

PricewaterhouseCoopersConsulting business!

“These days, building the best server isn’t enough. That’s the

price of entry.”

Ann Livermore, Hewlett-Packard

28. Leaders

LOVE the New Technology!

100 square feet

“There’s no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.”

“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was

your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve

believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

Lewis Carroll

I’net …

… allows you to dream dreams

you could never have dreamed

before!

28A. Needed? Type IV Leadership: Technology

Dreamer-True Believer

The Golden Leadership Quadrangle: (1) Creator-Visionary … (2) Talent

Fanatic-Mentor-V.C. … (3) Inspired Profit Mechanic. (4) Technology Dreamer-True

Believer

Talent.

29. When It Comes to

TALENT … Leaders Always Swing

for the Fences!

Message: Some people are better than other

people. Some people are a helluva lot better than other

people.

30. Leaders Don’t Create “Followers”:

THEY CREATE LEADERS!

Brand You, Big Time!

I AM AN ARMY OF

31. Leaders “Win Followers Over”

WHAT AN IDIOT: “Instead of employees being in the driver’s

seat, now we’re in the driver’s seat.”

PJ: “Coaching is winning

players over.”

32. Leaders “Manage” Their

EVP/Internal Brand Promise.

MantraM3

Talent = Brand

EVP = Challenge, professional growth, respect, satisfaction, opportunity, reward

Source: Ed Michaels et al., The War for Talent

33. Leaders LOVE RAINBOWS – for Pragmatic Reasons.

“Diversity defines the health and wealth of nations in a new century.

Mighty is the mongrel. … The hybrid is hip. The impure, the mélange, the adulterated, the

blemished, the rough, the black-and-blue, the mix-and-match – these people are inheriting

the earth. Mixing is the new norm. Mixing trumps isolation. It spawns creativity,

nourishes the human spirit, spurs economic growth

and empowers nations.”

G. Pascal Zachary, The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge

Passion.

34. Leaders …

Out Their

PASSION!

G.H.: “Create a ‘cause,’ not a ‘business.’ ”

35. Leaders Know: ENTHUSIASM

BEGETS ENTHUSIASM!

BZ: “I am a … Dispenser of Enthusiasm!”

36. Leaders Focus on the

SOFT STUFF!

“Soft” Is “Hard”

- ISOE

Message: Leadership is all about love! [Passion, Enthusiasms, Appetite for Life,

Engagement, Commitment, Great Causes & Determination to Make a

Damn Difference, Shared Adventures, Bizarre Failures, Growth, Insatiable

Appetite for Change.] [Otherwise, why bother? Just read Dilbert. TP’s final words: CYNICISM SUCKS.]

The “Job” of Leading.

37. Leaders Know It’s

ALL SALES ALL THE TIME.

TP: If you don’t LOVE SALES … find

another life. (Don’t pretend

you’re a “leader.”) (See TP’s The Project50.)

37A. Leaders

LOVE “POLITICS.”

TP: If you don’t LOVE POLITICS … find

another life. (Don’t pretend

you’re a “leader.”)

38. But … Leaders Also

Break a Lot of China

If you’re not pissing people off, you’re not making

a difference!

Characteristics of the “Also rans”*

“Minimize risk”“Respect the chain of

command”“Support the boss”

“Make budget”

*Fortune, article on “Most Admired Global Corporations”

39. Leaders

Give … RESPECT!

“It was much later that I realized Dad’s secret. He gained respect by giving it. He

talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a

bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.”

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect

“Leaders are living individuals whom employees smell, feel, touch their

presence.”#49

40. Leaders Say

“Thank You.”

“The deepest human

need is the need to be appreciated.”

William James

“The two most powerful things

in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.”

Ken Langone, CEO, Invemed Associates [from Ronna Lichtenberg, It’s Not Business, It’s Personal]

40A. Leaders Are …

Graceful.

“My favorite word is grace –

whether it’s amazing grace,

saving grace, grace under

fire, Grace Kelly. How we live contributes to beauty – whether it’s how we treat other people or

the environment.”

Celeste Cooper, designer

Rodale’s on “Grace” …

elegance … charm … loveliness … poetry in motion … kindliness ..

benevolence … benefaction … compassion … beauty

41. Leaders

LISTEN!

See Stephen! (Empathetic Listening)

41A. Leaders Are …

Curious.

41B. Leaders

… Ask Great Questions.

41C. Leaders

Are … Great Learners.

TP/08.2001: The Three Most Important Letters …

42. Leadership Is a …

Performance.

“It is necessary for the President to be the

nation’s No. 1 actor.”

43. Leaders … Are The Brand

“WHO ARE YOU [these days] ?”

TP to Client

“We are in the twilight of a society based on data. As information and intelligence become the domain of computers, society will place more value on the one human ability that cannot be automated: emotion.

Imagination, myth, ritual - the language of emotion - will affect everything from our purchasing decisions

to how we work with others. Companies will thrive on the basis of their stories and myths. Companies will need to understand

that their products are less important than their stories.”

Rolf Jensen, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies

The BRAND lives (OR DIES) in the “minutiae” of the leader’s moment-

to-moment actions.

“You must be the change you

wish to see in the world.”

Gandhi

44. Leaders …

Have a GREAT STORY!

“A key – perhaps the key – to leadership is the effective

communication of a story.”

Howard Gardner Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership

Leaders don’t just make products and make decisions.

Leaders make meaning. – John Seeley Brown

45. Leaders Seed & Pursue &

Recognize (Weird) “Demos.”

45A. Leaders

Create BUZZ!

Demos! Heroes! Stories!

Each VP a V.C.: Portfolio of high-risk investments in

people & ideas from all across the company.

Introspection.

46. Leaders …

Enjoy Leading.

Warren’s “Whoops Moment” …

“Warren, I know you want to ‘be’

president. But do you want to ‘do’

president?”

46A. Leaders …

KNOW THEMSELVES.

Individuals (would-be leaders) cannot engage in a

liberating mutual discovery process unless they are comfortable with their own skin. (“Leaders” who are not comfortable with themselves become petty

control freaks.)

46B. But …

Leaders have MENTORS.

The Gospel According to TP: Upon having the Leadership

Mantle placed upon thine head, thou shalt never hear the unvarnished

truth again!* (*Therefore, thy needs one faithful

compatriot to lay it on with no jelly.)

47. Leaders

LAUGH!

47A. But … Leaders Know

“It’s My Fault.”

You recruited ’em.You hired ’em.

You trained ’em. You evaluated ’em.

You “motivated” ’em.

47B. Leaders Don’t Scapegoat /

Allow Scapegoating.

“When a plane crashes, they ask, ‘What

happened?’ In medicine they ask: ‘Whose fault was it?’ ”—James Bagian, M.D. &

former astronaut, now working with the VHA.

48. Leaders … Take Breaks.

Zombie!Zombie!Zombie!Zombie!

The End Game.

49. Leaders ???

“Leadership is the PROCESS of

ENGAGING PEOPLE in CREATING a LEGACY

of EXCELLENCE.”

“ ‘It’s only business, not personal’ … IT

ALWAYS IS PERSONAL.”

“Hire smart – go bonkers – have grace – make mistakes – love technology – start all

over again.”

“LEADERS NEED TO BE THE ROCK OF

GIBRALTAR ON ROLLER BLADES”

Bonus: Boss Talk

Branding: Kevin Roberts: “The great brands have mystery and

sensuality. Apple is the most sensual product since the

vibrator.”/ Tina Brown: “You should be able to throw a magazine on the floor at any page and know

whose magazine it is.”/

The Perils of “Me-too”: Stephen Hardis (Eaton): “Don’t have your

resources trapped in areas that are inherently zero-sum games with a very marginal return.”/ Phil Condit (Boeing): “Just doing what your competitor does

is the biggest opportunity to lose money. Douglas and Lockheed built

tri-jets to the identical specs and beat each other silly.”

Jeff Bezos: “It’s easy to let the in-box side of your life overwhelm

you, so you become a totally reactive person. The only remedy I know is to set aside some fraction

of your time as your own. I use Tuesdays and Thursdays as my proactive days, when I try not to

schedule meetings.”

Jeff Bezos: “I'm often encouraging people to go faster, even if it means a

worse initial product. I want us to start learning. The cost of trying to avoid mistakes is huge in terms of speed.”

Robert Miller (Federal-Mogul), on Turnarounds: (1) Tell the truth.

Play it straight. (2) Make decisions. Don’t study things to

death. (3) Listen to your customers. They are usually more perceptive than you are

about what needs to be done.”

Juergen Schrempp/DaimlerChrysler

“Digital decision making”/ “the danger of the deadly

wish for harmony”

Boss Talk/WSJ

Provide a simple, clear, exciting & energizing focus.Obsess on TALENT.Speed > Perfection. (Clarity, motivation, rapid adjustment.)

Leap > Line extension. (Beware “me-too,” perfecting yesterday.)

Tell the truth.Control your calendar.Get out of the office.Listen to customers face-to-face—at their place.

50. Leaders Know

WHEN TO LEAVE!

Thank You!

Tom Peters’ 2002 We Are In A Brawl With No Rules! Detroit/02.07.2002.

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