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Tom Peters’ Leadership2002
Leading in Totally Screwed-
Up TimesWashington Speakers
Bureau/05.14.2002
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The Context.
“We are in a brawl with no rules.”—Paul Allaire
“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
Leadership36(36 ideas in 35 minutes)
The Basic Premise.
1. Leadership Is a …
Mutual Discovery Process.
“I don’t know.”
2. Leaders Try … Not to Screw Things
Up
“Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it
difficult for people to get things done.” – P.D.
The Leadership
Types.
3. 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!
4. 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)
5. Find the “Businesspeople”!
(Type III Leadership)
I.P.M. (Inspired Profit
Mechanic)
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!
Rudy!
8. Leaders … LOVE the
MESS!
“I’m not comfortable unless I’m
uncomfortable.”—Jay Chiat
“If things seem under control, you’re just not
going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti
9. Leaders
DO!
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!)
10. BUT … Leaders
Know When to Wait.
Tex Schramm: The
“too hard” box!
11. Leaders
FOCUS!
“To Don’t ” List
Danger: S.I.O. (Strategic
Initiative Overload)
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!
If It Ain’t Broke … Break It.
12. 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
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
13. Leaders …
HANG OUT WITH FREAKS!
Saviors-in-Waiting
Disgruntled CustomersUpstart CompetitorsRogue EmployeesFringe Suppliers
Wayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision
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
Employees: “Are there enough weird
people in the lab these days?”
V. Chmn., pharmaceutical house, to a lab director (06.01)
14. Leaders Make [Lotsa] Mistakes
– and MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT!
Sam’s
Secret #1!
15. Leaders Make …
BIG MISTAKES!
“Reward excellent
failures. Punish mediocre successes.”
Phil Daniels, Sydney exec (and, de facto, Jack)
Create.
16. 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
17. 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
5%)
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
18. Leaders … Make Their Mark /
Leaders … Do Stuff That Matters
“I never, ever thought of myself
as a ‘businessman.’ I was simply interested in
creating things I would be proud of.” —Richard Branson
19. Leaders
LOVE the New Technology!
100 square feet
Talent.
20. When It Comes to
TALENT … Leaders Always Swing
for the Fences!
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)
Message: Some people are better than other
people. Some people are a helluva lot better than other
people.
21. Leaders Don’t Create “Followers”:
THEY CREATE LEADERS!
Brand You, Big Time!
I AM AN ARMY OF
ONE
22. 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.”
23. 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.
24. Leaders …
Out Their
PASSION!
G.H.: “Create a ‘cause,’ not a ‘business.’ ”
“They [leading consumer goods company] have acquired a bunch of products, which is what everyone is doing. But what’s the point, the
message, the story line, the Big Idea that makes ‘it’ all hang together?” —Exec,
major consumer goods company
25. Leaders Know: ENTHUSIASM
BEGETS ENTHUSIASM!
BZ: “I am a … Dispenser of Enthusiasm!”
The “Job” of Leading.
26. 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.)
27. Leaders
LOVE “POLITICS.”
TP: If you don’t LOVE POLITICS … find
another life. (Don’t pretend
you’re a “leader.”)
28. But … Leaders Also
Break a Lot of China
If you’re not pissing people off, you’re not making
a difference!
29. 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
30. Leaders Say
“Thank You.”
“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]
31. Leaders … Are The Brand
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
32. 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
Introspection.
33. Leaders …
Enjoy Leading.
“Warren, I know you want to ‘be’
president. But do you want to ‘do’
president?”
34. Leaders … Take Breaks.
Zombie!Zombie!Zombie!Zombie!
The End Game.
35. Leaders ???
:
“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”
36. Leaders Know
WHEN TO LEAVE!
Thank You!