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Tom Peters on … Transformational Change v06 December 2005. “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army. Brand Inside Action Brand You Talent Leadership I Leadership II. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Tom Peters on …
Transformational Change
v06 December 2005
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“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like
irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
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Brand InsideAction
Brand YouTalent
Leadership ILeadership II
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Brand InsideAction
Brand YouTalent
Leadership ILeadership II
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“Brand Inside”: A “Culture” Issue!
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“If I could have chosen not to tackle the IBM culture head-on, I probably wouldn’t have. My bias coming in was toward
strategy, analysis and measurement. In comparison, changing the attitude and behaviors of hundreds of thousands of people
is very, very hard. [Yet] I came to see in my time at IBM that
culture isn’t just one aspect of the game—it is the
game.” —Lou Gerstner, Who Says Elephants Can’t
Dance
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“I lecture on [organizational learning] a dozen times a year now. I
sometimes think it’s a waste of time. Most everyone ‘gets’ the
easy part [our technology], which really isn’t that sophisticated—and
they altogether glide by all the real, ‘culture’ issues.” —Robert Buckman,
Buckman Labs, organization learning guru
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“The business of selling is not just about matching viable solutions to the customers that require them.
It’ equally about managing the change process the customer will
need to go through to implement the solution and achieve the value
promised by the solution. One of the key differentiators of our position in the market is our attention to managing change and making change
stick in our customers’ organization.” —Jeff Thull, The Prime Solution: Close the Value Gap, Increase Margins,
and Win the Complex Sale
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The “PSF35”: Thirty-Five
Professional Service Firm Marks of Excellence
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“ ‘Disintermediation’ is overrated. Those who fear disintermediation should in fact be afraid of
irrelevance—disintermediation is just another way of saying
that you’ve become irrelevant to your
customers.” —John Battelle/Point/Advertising Age/07.05
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Answer: PSF![Professional Service Firm]
Department Head
to …
Managing Partner, HR [IS, R&D, etc.] Inc.
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The PSF35: The Work & The Legacy
1. CRYSTAL CLEAR POINT OF VIEW (Every Practice Group: “If you can’t explain your position in eight words or less, you don’t have a position”—Seth Godin)2. DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE (“We are the only ones who do what we do”—Jerry Garcia)3. Stretch Is Routine (“Never bite off less than you can chew”—anon.)4. Eye-Appetite for Game-changer Projects (Excellence at Assembling “Best Team”—Fast) 5. “Playful” Clients (Adventurous folks who unfailingly Aim to Change the World)6. Small “Uneconomic” Clients with Big Aims7. Life Is Too Short to Work with Jerks (Fire lousy clients)8. OBSESSED WITH LEGACY (Practice Group and Individual: “Dent the Universe”—Steve Jobs)9. Fire-on-the-spot Anyone Who Says, “Law/Architecture/Consulting/ I-banking/ Accounting/PR/Etc. has become a ‘commodity’ ”10. Consistent with #9 above … DO NOT SHY AWAY FROM THE WORD (IDEA) “RADICAL”
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“Gasp-worthy!
”
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The PSF35: The Client Experience
11. Always team with client: “full partners in achieving memorable results” (Wanted: “Chimeras of Moonstruck Minds”!)12. We will seek assistance Anywhere to assemble the Best-in- Planet Team for the Project13. Client Team Members routinely declare that working with us was “the Peak Experience of my Career”14. The job’s not done until implementation is “100.00% complete” (Those who don’t “get it” must go)15. IMPLEMENTATION IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL THE CLIENT HAS EXPERIENCED “CULTURE CHANGE”16. IMPLEMENTATION IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL SIGNIFICANT “TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER” HAS TAKEN PLACE-ROOT (“Teach a man to fish …”)17. The Final Exam: DID WE MAKE A DRAMATIC, LASTING, GAME-CHANGING DIFFERENCE?
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The PSF35: The People & The Leadership
18. TALENT FANATICS (“Best-Coolest place to work”) (PERIOD)19. EYE FOR THE PECULIAR (Hiring: Go beyond “same old, same old”) 20. Early Opportunities (vs. “Wait your turn”) 21. Up or Out (Based on “Legacy”/Mentoring as much as “Billings”/“Rainmaking”)22. Slide the Old Aside/Make Room for Youth (Find oldsters new roles?)23. TALENT IS OBSESSED WITH RENEWAL FROM DAY #1 TO DAY #“R” [R = Retirement]24. Office/Practice Leaders Evaluated Primarily on Mentoring-Team Building Skills25. A “PROPRIETARY” TALENT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS (GE)26. Team Leadership Skills Valued Early27. Partner with B.I.W. [Best In World] Outsiders as Needed and to Infuse Different Views
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The PSF35: The Firm & The Brand
28. EAT-SLEEP-BREATHE-OOZE INTEGRITY (“My life is my message”—Gandhi)29. Excellence+ in EXECUTION … 100.00% of the Time (No such thing as a “small sins”/World Series Ring to the Batboy!) 30. “Drop everything”/“Swarm” to Support a Harried-On The Verge Team31. SPEND AS AGGRESSIVELY ON R&D AS A TECH FIRM OR CIRQUE DU SOLEIL32. A PROPRIETARY METHODOLOGY (FBR, McKinsey, Chiat Day, IDEO, old EDS)33. Web (Technology) Obsession34. BRAND/“LOVEMARK” MANIACS (Organize Around a Point of View Worth BROADCASTING: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world”—Gandhi)35. PASSION! ENTHUSIASM! (Passion & Enthusiasm have as much a place at the Head Table in a “PSF” as in a widgets factory: “You can’t behave in a calm, rational manner. You’ve got to be out there on the lunatic fringe”—Jack Welch)
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Winning (Guaranteed?) !
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Up, Up, Up, Up,Up the Value-added Ladder.
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The Traditional “Value-added Ladder”
ServicesGoods
Raw Materials
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And the “M” Stands for … ?
Gerstner’s IBM: “Systems Integrator of
choice.” (BW)
IBM Global Services: $55B
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Planetary Rainmaker-in-Chief!
“Palmisano’s strategy is to expand tech’s borders by pushing users—and entire
industries—toward radically different business models. The payoff
for IBM would be access to an ocean of revenue—Palmisano estimates it at $500 billion a year—that technology companies
have never been able to touch.” —Fortune
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“[Closing/selling Boeings 8,000-person facility in Wichita] was an
important decision in moving
forward with Boeing’s long-term strategy of
becoming a large-scale integrator.” —The Wichita Eagle/06.16.2005
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“Big Brown’s New Bag: UPS
Aims to Be the Traffic Manager for Corporate
America” —Headline/BW/07.19.2004
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“SCS”/Supply Chain Solutions: 750 locations;
$2.5B; fastest growing division; 19 acquisitions,
including a bank
Source: Fast Company/02.04
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“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
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Bear In Mind: Customer Satisfaction
versus Customer
Success
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New York-Presbyterian: 7-year,
$500M enterprise-systems consulting and
equipment contract with GE
Medical SystemsSource: NYT/07.18.2004
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“Instant Infrastructure: GE Becomes a General
Store for Developing Countries” —headline/
NYT/07.16.05
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The Revised Value-added Ladder.2005
Gamechanging Solutions
ServicesGoods
Raw Materials
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The New Enterprise Value-Added Equation/Mark2005
(1) 100% “WOW PROJECTS” (New Org “DNA”/“The Work”)
+ (2) Incredible “TALENT” Transformed into (3) Entrepreneurial “BRAND YOUs” and
(4) Launched on Awesome “QUESTS”
= (5) Internal “Rockin’ PSFs” (Staff Depts. Morphed into Wildly
Innovative Professional Service Firms) … (6) Which Coalesce to Transform the FEVP/Fundamental Enterprise Value Proposition from “Superior Products &
Services” to “ENCOMPASSING SOLUTIONS” & “GAME-CHANGING CLIENT SUCCESS”
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Big Idea/“Meta”-Idea/Premier “Engine of Value Added”
(1) The Talent: “Best Roster” of Entrepreneurial-minded Brand Yous.
(2) The (Virtual) Organization: Internal or External “PSF”/Professional Service Firm
working with “Best Anywhere” = Engine of Value Added through the Application of
Creative “Intellectual Capital”
(3) The Work Product: “Game Changer” WOW Projects
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Brand InsideAction
Brand YouTalent
Leadership ILeadership II
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Action
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Action!
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TP on BigCo sin #1: “too much talk,
too little do”
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“Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to
get things done.” – Peter Drucker
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“It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent, but the
one most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin
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“Execution is the job of the
business leader.” —Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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“I saw that leaders placed too much emphasis on what some call high-level strategy, on intellectualizing
and philosophizing, and not enough on implementation. People would
agree on a project or initiative, and then nothing would come of it.” —Larry
Bossidy & Ram Charan/Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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“We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.” — Herb Kelleher
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Try It.
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John Masters: “This is so simple it sounds stupid, but it is amazing
how few oil people really
understand that you only find oil if you drill
wells. You may think you’re
finding it when you’re drawing maps and studying logs, but
you have to drill.” (Canadian Hunter)
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Sam’s
Secret #1!
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“Fail faster. Succeed sooner.”
David Kelley/IDEO
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Fail. Forward. Fast. –High-tech Exec
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“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
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Ye gads: “Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation
between success in school and an ability to accumulate wealth, he’s actually found a negative
correlation. ‘It seems that school-related evaluations are poor predictors of economic success,’ Stanley concluded.
What did predict success was a willingness to take risks. Yet the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers.
Most educational systems reward those who play it safe. As a result, those who do well in school find it hard to take risks later
on.”
Richard Farson & Ralph Keyes, Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins
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Larry.
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Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/Execution: The
Discipline of Getting Things Done
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“Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously
following through, and ensuring accountability.” —
Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/ Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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The Leader’s Seven Essential Behaviors
*Know your people and your business*Insist on realism*Set clear goals and priorities*Follow through*Reward the doers*Expand people’s capabilities*Know yourself
Source: Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/ Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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Action8/VPMR+/Peters on Bossidy*Knowledge/External Focus (Competitors/Customers)
*Realism/Truth-telling*Vision *Projects (Must add up to Vision) *Milestones*Commitment/Energy*RapidReview*Consequences (+/-)
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“Realism is the heart of execution.”
—Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/ Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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“robust dialogue”
—Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/ Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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“The person who is a little less conceptual but is absolutely determined to succeed will usually find the
right people and get them together to achieve objectives. I’m not knocking education or looking for
dumb people. But if you have to choose between someone with a staggering IQ and an elite education who’s gliding along, and
someone with a lower IQ but who is absolutely determined to succeed, you’ll
always do better with the second person.” —Larry Bossidy
(Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done)
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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
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(“Leaders ‘do’
people. Period.” —TP)
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MBWA
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Boyd.
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He who has the quickest O.O.D.A.
Loops* wins!*Observe. Orient. Decide. Act. /Col. John Boyd
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“Blitzkrieg is far more than lightning thrusts that most people think of when they hear the
term; rather it was all about high operational tempo and the rapid exploitation of
opportunity.” —Robert Coram, Boyd
“Re-arrange the mind of the enemy” —T.E. Lawrence
“Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee” —Ali
BOYD: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed
the Art of War (Robert Coram)
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OODA Loop/Boyd Cycle“Unraveling the competition”/ Quick Transients/ Quick Tempo (NOT JUST
SPEED!)/ Agility/ “So quick it is disconcerting” (adversary over-reacts or under-reacts)/ “Winners used tactics that caused the enemy to unravel before the
fight” (NEVER HEAD TO HEAD)
BOYD: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Robert Coram)
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“Maneuverists”
BOYD: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Robert Coram)
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The “Big Two”!
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“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
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“I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs seeking escape from life within huge corporate structures, ‘How do I build a small firm for myself?’ The
answer seems obvious: Buy a very large one and just wait.”
—Paul Ormerod, Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics
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35 years in the
baking …
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De-cent-ral-iz-
a-tion!!
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Ac-count-a-bil-ity!!
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“HOW THE COAST GUARD GETS IT RIGHT” —Headline, Time, 10.31.2005
*Autonomy*Flexibility
*“Perhaps the most important distinction of the Coast Guard is that
it trusts itself”
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Bingo.
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A man approached JP Morgan, held up an envelope, and said, “Sir, in my hand I hold a guaranteed formula for success, which I
will gladly sell you for $25,000.”
“Sir,” JP Morgan replied, “I do not know what is in the envelope, however if you show me, and I like it, I give you my word as a
gentleman that I will pay you what you ask.”
The man agreed to the terms, and handed over the envelope.JP Morgan opened it, and extracted a single sheet of paper. He gave it one look, a mere glance, then handed the piece of
paper back to the gent.
And paid him the agreed-upon $25,000 …
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1. Every morning, write a list of the things that need to be done that day.
2. Do them. Source: Hugh MacLeod/tompeters.com/NPR
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Roots.
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Frank Purdue (“You damn well better be right.” )Herb Kelleher (“We have a ‘strategic plan,’ it’s called doing things.”)Roger Milliken (Action item/Milestone/Due date/Accountability/Consequences fanaticism) Bob Nardelli (Bulldog!) (7am!)Andy Pearson (the “missing 95 percent”/Op reviews/Deep dive)Bill Creech (Billboards/ “fly bys”/Squadron-spirit)Sam (Secret #1)Lee Scott (96-hour re-merchandising) (TP/CGA: “You’re problem isn’t that they’re bigger; it’s that they’re better.” )
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Earl WeaverJerry Rice
Roger Enrico (Rule of 3) (Leadership development)Pat Carrigan (5 X 25 = 125 years)Dennis Littky (LBI)Dick Anderson (Build it!) v Dan (Report it—“tangible”/ “palpable”) (“Can Do!”) (WWII—working stiffs) George Patton (“A good plan executed right now tops a perfect plan executed next week.”)Horatio Nelson!John Boyd! (O.O.D.A. Loops) (Disorientation! Fly into the ground.)Dennis Di Florio (Commerce Bank; 7-7-7)
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Wilf Corrigan (LSI … “and then we’d send him to Taipei …”)
Dennis Donovan ($21M)Guy Kawasaki (25 X 4 = 100 per year)Nathan Myhrvold (10,000X)Ed Michaels ($25M-$80M/2 yrs)
Oticon (“scoreboard” in the lunchroom)
GE (1 of 100)3MHP (old)
“1, 2, 3 … Bullshit”
Re-do Rapidly (Microsoft) Norio Ogha (Fast prototyping/IDEO/ MSchrage: Prototyping = #1)
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Larry Bossidy (CANDOR!) (Promises made & kept. Consequences.)LB (Ex as Core Competence #1 All key systems designed around Execution)LB (religion of “action items”)
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RHWjr-TP (#1: Bias for Action) (#1 = MBWA!) (ISOE-Daniel; “Managing Our Way to Economic Decline”/HBR) (XX)TP (1st GSB dissertation on Implementation) (B>A vs A>B)TP (My lucky breaks: Dan, Xerox) TP (35 years: Decentralization. Accountability.)TP (MTD—Master of Talent Development; W/MwGTDw/oC— Woman/Man Who Gets Things Done without Certificate; MMM—Master of Metabolic Management; DE—Doctor of Enthusiasm)
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Beautiful Systems
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450/8
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“Beautiful”“Graceful”“Aesthetic Triumph”
“Breathtaking”“Game-changing”
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Rodale’s on “Grace” …
elegance … charm … loveliness … poetry in motion … kindliness ..
benevolence … benefaction … compassion … beauty
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First Steps: “Beauty Contest”!
1. Select one form/document: invoice, airbill, 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
days.
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K.I.S.S.
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Lee’s Rule: Run It off a
Blackberry!
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“Really Important Stuff”: Roger’s Rule of Three!
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“I wanted GE to operate with the speed, informality, and open communication of a
corner store. Corner stores often have strategy right. With
their limited resources, they have to rely on laser-like focus on doing one thing very well.”
—Jack Welch/Fortune/04.05
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The Planning, Planning Systems,
Intelligence & Measures50
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The Planning, Planning Systems, Intelligence & Measures50
*K.I.S.S. (!!) (450/8.) (500/50—GB.) (Lee’s Blackberry.)*Complexity accretes one day/person/item at a time!*There must be a “Systems & Measures Un- designer.” (Rem Koolhaas: “Often my job is to undo things.”)*Focus!!!!*5 or fewer key indicators. (Enrico’s “Rule of Three.”)*Key indicators must be backed up by unmistakable impact on evals and compensation! (JW & 6-sigma)*Prune 50% of your measures … TODAY.
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The Planning, Planning Systems, Intelligence & Measures50
*“Measurement Architecture” = (Real) Corporate Strategy. (PERIOD.) *CIOs & CFOs & C“R”Os will become Soulmates in effective organizations!*Can a fourth grader understand it (Paul Sherlock, JW)?*Overall “systems architecture” should be in the heads of no more than three people. (Fred Brooks jr./360.)*Nothing is easier than lying with statistics. (Measurement is not Reality.)*Hard is Soft. Soft is Hard. (TP-RWjr.) (c.f. Enron.)
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The Planning, Planning Systems, Intelligence & Measures50
*Fanatically measure Customer Satisfaction regarding systems/measures!*If the Customer says it’s confusing … it’s confusing. PERIOD.*Systems & Measures planning must be “Bottom Up”! (Buy-in Rules in “systems world.”)*If, as a “systems’ guy/gal,” it “turns you on” … BEWARE! (Jefferson’s Rule. Lessons from Clio.)
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The Planning, Planning Systems, Intelligence & Measures50
*Systems & Measures should be/can be/ought to be Works of Art!*Great systems are about aesthetics!*Is it “beautiful”?*Is it “graceful”?*Is it Surprising? *Use a great Graphic Designer on all systems development teams … and a damn good Psychologist. (Steve world.)*Systems design is not innocent: It is the Ultimate Power Game!*She/He who controls the primary measures … Rules the World!
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The Planning, Planning Systems, Intelligence & Measures50
*“Budgets” as we’ve known them are more than a “wretched waste”: They are Danger #1 in TurbulentTimes!*Budgets are exercises in Negotiated Timidity.*“Managing to budget” is a/the Mortal Sin.*Plan, then burn the plan! (Koppers.)*“Continuous” and “rolling” are superb ideas … but beware so much “plasticity” that one forgets the starting point! Hard. Comparative data is a “very good thing.”
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The Planning, Planning Systems, Intelligence & Measures50
*“Intelligence” is always obvious after the fact.*B.I.: Remember HUMINT!!*Great BizIntelligence depends on Freaks & Whackos, from Langley to the Board Room. (I.e., Be Incredibly Eclectic in terms of sources of Intelligence.)*All intelligence gathering is a Political Activity. (C.f. CIA, FBI.)*B.I. is about “outliers.” (?? If you can measure it, it’s not on the leading edge??)
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The Planning, Planning Systems, Intelligence & Measures50
*If a system/measure gives you a stupid answer, it’s probably a stupid system/measure.*Measures should routinely produce Surprises (if not, discard them).*Perform systems & Measures post-mortems after major fiascos (“Why didn’t this stick out like a sore thumb?”)*The half-life of Measures is 3 years. (Effective “gaming” begins in year #2, reaches a crescendo by year #4.)
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The Planning, Planning Systems, Intelligence & Measures50
*Intangibles rule! *Measure intangibles! (!!!!)*Be(very)ware the tangibles becoming Total Reality, thence crowding out Real Reality.*Constantly review what’s not being measured. (Ever tried to drive a car using only the dashboard?)*“Models” are incredibly Stupid (very rough approximations of reality): Make sure everyone understands that!*Business is Art!
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The Planning, Planning Systems, Intelligence & Measures50
*Planning systems should support execution! (PERT/CPM.)
*Uniformity of measurement/presentation across units is fantastic up to a point. *“Let a thousand flowers bloom, let a hundred schools contend”: Let a 100 flowers bloom, let a dozen schools contend.*“Do it right the first time” is as stupid in “systems world” as in TQM.*Selection of measurements is one of the Most Creative Acts in the Enterprise!*Are there Freaks aplenty in the Systems & Measures & Intelligence activities?
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Brand InsideAction
Brand YouTalent
Leadership ILeadership II
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Brand You!
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“There is no job that is America’s God-given
right anymore.” —Carly
Fiorina/HP/January2004
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“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
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Personal “Brand Equity” Evaluation– I am known for [2 to 3 things]; next year at this time I’ll
also be known for [1 more thing].– My current Project is challenging me …– New things I’ve learned in the last 90 days include …– My public “recognition program”
consists of …– Additions to my Rolodex in the last 90 days include …
–My resume is discernibly different from last year’s at this time …
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The Rule of Positioning
“If you can’t describe your position in
eight words or less, you don’t have
a position.” — Jay Levinson and
Seth Godin, Get What You Deserve!
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“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you
can create your own legend or not.”
Isabel Allende
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New Work SurvivalKit2005
1. Mastery! (Best/Absurdly Good at Something!)2. “Manage” to Legacy (All Work = “Memorable”/“Braggable” WOW Projects!)3. A “USP”/Unique Selling Proposition (R.POV8: Remarkable Point of View … captured in 8 or less words) 4. Rolodex Obsession (From vertical/hierarchy/“suck up” loyalty to horizontal/“colleague”/“mate” loyalty)5. Entrepreneurial Instinct (A sleepless … Eye for Opportunity! E.g.: Small Opp for Independent Action beats faceless part of Monster Project)6. CEO/Leader/Businessperson/Closer (CEO, Me Inc. Period! 24/7!)7. Mistress of Improv (Play a dozen parts simultaneously, from Chief Strategist to Chief Toilet Scrubber)8. Sense of Humor (A willingness to Screw Up & Move On)9. Comfortable with Your Skin (Bring “interesting you” to work!)10. Intense Appetite for Technology (E.g.: How Cool-Active is your Web site? Do you Blog?)11. Embrace “Marketing” (Your own CSO/Chief Storytelling Officer)12. Passion for Renewal (Your own CLO/Chief Learning Officer) 13. Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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R.D.A.
Rate: 15%?, 25%?
Therefore: Formal “Investment
Strategy”/R.I.P.**Renewal Investment Plan
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26.3
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Have you invested as much this year* in your career as in
your car?*Absolute$$$, % of Asset Value
Source: Molly Sargent
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Distinct …
or … Extinct
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A “position” is not an “accomplishment.” —TP
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Oh, S+&*#!
“Tom, what have you done this year?” —Jessica
Sutherland, IIR ME
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Getting to WOW Through Mastery of …
The Sales25.
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The Sales25: Great Salespeople …
1. Know the product. (Find cool mentors, and use them.)
2. Know the company.3. Know the customer. (Including the customer’s consultants.) (And especially the “corporate culture.”)4. Love internal politics at home and abroad.5. Religiously respect competitors. (No badmouthing, no matter how provoked.)6. Wire the customer’s org. (Relationships at all levels & functions.)7. Wire the home team’s org. and vendors’ orgs. (INVEST Big Time time in relationships at all levels & functions.) (Take junior people in all functions to client meetings.)
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Great Salespeople …
8. Never overpromise. (Even if it costs you your job.) 9. Sell only by solving problems-creating profitable opportunities. (“Our product solves these problems, creates these unimagined INCREDIBLE opportunities, and will make you a ton of money—here’s exactly how.”) (IS THIS A “PRODUCT SALE” OR A WOW-ORIGINAL SOLUTION YOU’LL BE DINING OFF 5 YEARS FROM NOW? THAT WILL BE WRITTEN UP IN THE TRADE PRESS?)10. Will involve anybody—including mortal enemies—if it enhances the scope of the problem we can solve and increases the scope of the opportunity we can encompass.11. Know the Brand Story cold; live the Brand Story. (If not, leave.)
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Great Salespeople …
12. Think “Turnkey.” (It’s always your problem!)
13. Act as “orchestra conductor”: You are responsible for making the whole-damn-network respond. (PERIOD.)
14. Help the customer get to know the vendor’s organization & build up their Rolodex.15. Walk away from bad business. (Even if it gets you fired.)
16. Understand the idea of a “good loss.” (A bold effort that’s sometimes better than a lousy win.)17. Think those who regularly say “It’s all a price issue” suffer from rampant immaturity & shrunken imagination.18. Will not give away the store to get a foot in the door. 19. Are wary & respectful of upstarts—the real enemy.20. Seek several “cool customers”—who’ll drag you into Tomorrowland.
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“If you don’t listen, you don’t sell
anything.”
—Carolyn Marland/MD/Guardian Group
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Great Salespeople …
21. Use the word “partnership” obsessively, even though it is way overused. (“Partnership” includes folks at all levels throughout the supply chain.)22. Send thank you notes by the truckload. (NOT E-NOTES.) (Most are for “little things.”) (50% of those notes are sent to those in our company!) Remember birthdays. Use the word “we.” 23. When you look across the table at the customer, think religiously to yourself: “HOW CAN I MAKE THIS DUDE RICH & FAMOUS & GET HIM-HER PROMOTED?” 24. Great salespeople can affirmatively respond to the query in an HP banner ad: HAVE YOU CHANGED CIVILIZATION TODAY?25. Keep your bloody PowerPoint slides simple!
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“Success or Failure”? Try Instead “Optimism or Failure”!
From Martin Seligman’s Learned Optimism: “I believe the traditional wisdom is incomplete. A composer can have all the talent of a Mozart and a passionate desire to succeed, but if he believes he cannot compose music, he will come to nothing. He
will not try hard enough. He will give up too soon when the elusive right melody takes too long to materialize. Success requires persistence, the ability to not give up in the face of
failure. I believe that … OPTIMISTIC EXPLANATORY STYLE … is the key to persistence.
“The optimistic-explanatory-style theory of success says that in order to choose people for success in a challenging job, you
need to select for three characteristics: (1) Aptitude. (2) Motivation. (3) Optimism. All three determine success.”
(Note: Seligman’s extensive work with Met Life salespeople, among others, proved out the above—in spades.)
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Pessimist: Good things … “I’m worthless, but got lucky on this one.”
Bad things … “I’m a bozo who deserved my sorry fate.”
Optimist: Good things … “I deserved that; I’m the cat’s meow.” Bad things … “I’m the cat’s meow, but the cat had
an unlucky day; tomorrow will be better for sure.”
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Getting Things Done: The
Power &
Implementation34.
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*Send “Thank You” notes! It’s (always) “all
about relationships.” And at the Heart of Effective Relationships is … APPRECIATION. (Oh yeah: Never, ever forget a birthday of a co-worker.)
*Bring donuts! “Small” gestures of appreciation (on a rainy day, after a long day’s work the day before) are VBDs … Very Big Deals.
*Make the call! One short, hard-to-make call today can avert a relationship crisis that could bring you down six months from now.
*Remember: There are no “little gestures” of kindness. As boss, stopping by someone’s cube … for 30 seconds … to inquire about their sick parent will be remembered for … 10 years. (Trust me.)
*Make eye contact! No big deal? Wrong! “It” is all about … Connection! Paying attention! Being there … in the Moment … Present. So, work on your eye contact, your Intent to Connect.
*Smile! Or, rather: SMILE. Rule: Smiles beget smiles. Frowns beget frowns. Rule: WORK ON THIS.
*Smile! (If it kills you.) Energy & enthusiasm & passion engender energy-enthusiasm-passion in those we work with.
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*It’s all … RELATIONSHIPS. Remember: Business is a relationships business. (Period.) We’re all in sales! (Period.) Connecting! Making our case! Following up! Networking! “Relationships” are what we “do.”
*You = Your Calendar. Your true priorities are “given away” by your calendar. YOUR CALENDAR NEVER LIES. What are you truly spending your time on? Are you distracted? Focused?
*What’s in a number? EVERYTHING! While we all “do a hundred things,” we may not/should not/cannot have more than 2 (or 3) true “strategic” priorities at any point in time. BELIEVE IT.
*She (he) who is best prepared wins! Out study, out-read, out-research the competition. Know more (lots more!) than “the person on the other side of the table.”
*“Excellence” is the Ultimate Cool Idea. The very idea of “pursuing excellence” is a turn on—for you and me as well as those we work with. (And, I find to my dismay, it’s surprisingly rare.)
*Think WOW! Language matters! “Hot” words generate a Hot Team. Watch your language!
*Take a break! We need all the creativity we can muster these days. So close your office door and do 5 (FIVE) minutes of breathing or yoga; get a bag lunch today and eat it in the park.
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*You are the boss! Old ideas of “lifetime employment” at one company (maybe where Dad/Mom worked) are gone. No matter what your current status, think of your self as CEO of Brand Me, Inc. We are all Small Business Owners … of our own careers.
*Do something in … the next half hour! Don’t let yourself get stuck! There is … ALWAYS … something little you can start/do in the next thirty minutes to make a wee, concrete step forward with a problem-opportunity.
*Test it! NOW! We call this the “Quick Prototype Attitude.” One of life’s, especially business life’s, biggest problems is: “Too much ‘talk’, too little ‘do’.” If you’ve got a Cool Idea, don’t sit on it or research it to death. Grab a pal, an empty conference, and start laying out a little model. That is, begin the process of transforming the Idea to Action … ASAP. Incidentally, testing something quarter-baked in an approximation of the real world is the quickest way to learn.
*Expand your horizons. Routinely reach out beyond your comfort zone. TAKE A FREAK TO LUNCH TOMORROW! Call somebody interesting “you’ve been meaning to get in touch with;” invite them to lunch tomorrow. (Lunch with “the same ole gang means nothing new learned. And that’s a guarantee.) (Remember: Discomfort = Growth.)
*Build a Web site. The Web is ubiquitous. Play with it! Be a presence! Start You.com … ASAP!
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*Spread the credit! Don’t build monuments to yourself, build them to others—those whose contributions we wholeheartedly acknowledge will literally follow us into machine gun fire!
*Follow Tom’s patented VFCJ strategy! VFCJ = Volunteer For Crappy Jobs. That is, volunteer for the crummy little assignment nobody else wants, but will give you a chance to (1) be on your own, (2) express your creativity, and (3) make a noticeable mark when it turns out “Wow.”
*VOLUNTEER! Life’s a maze, and you never know what’s connected to what. (Six degrees of separation, and all that.) So volunteer for that Community Center fund raising drive, even though you’re busy as all get out. You might end up working side-by-side with the president of a big company who’s looking for an enthusiast like you, or someone wealthy who might be interested in investing in the small business you dream of starting.
*Join Toastmasters! You don’t need to try and match Ronald Reagan’s speaking skills, but you do need to be able to “speak your piece” with comfort, confidence and authority. Organizations like Toastmasters can help … enormously.
*Dress for success! This one is old as the hills and I hate it!! But it’s true. FIRST IMPRESSIONS DO MATTER. (A lot!!!)
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*Follow the Gospel of “Experience Marketing” in all you do. The shrewdest marketers today tell us that selling a “product” or “service” is not enough in a crowded marketplace for everything. Every interaction must be reframed as a … Seriously Cool Experience. That includes the “little” 15-minute presentation you are giving to your 4 peers tomorrow.
*Think of your resume as an Annual Report on Brand Me Inc. It’s not about keeping your resume “updated.” It is about having a Super-cool Annual Report. (Tom Peters Inc 2004.) What are your “stunning” accomplishments that you can add to that Report each 6 months, or at the most annually?
*Build a Great Team … even if you are not boss. Best roster wins, right? So, work on your roster. Meet someone new at Church or your kid’s birthday party? Add them to your team (Team Tom); you never know when they might be able to assist you or give you ideas or support for something you are working on.
*She or he who has the Fattest & and Best-managed Rolodex wins. Your Rolodex is your most cherished possession! Have you added 3 names to it in the last 2 weeks? Have you renewed acquaintance (email, lunch, gym date) with 3 people in your Rolodex in the last month? “MANAGE” YOUR ROLODEX!
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*Start your own business! Sure that’s radical. But people are doing it—especially women—by the millions. Let the idea percolate. Chat about it, perhaps, with pals. Start a file folder or three on things you Truly Care About … that just might be the basis for Cool Self-employment.
*There’s nothing cooler than an Angry Customer! The most loyal customers are ones who had a problem with us … and then marveled when we went the Extra Ten Miles to fix it! Business opportunity No. 1 = Irate customers converted into fans. So … are you on the prowl for customer problems to fix?
*All “marketing” is Relationship Marketing. In business, profit is a byproduct of “bringing ’em back.” Thus, systematic and intense and repeated Follow-up and After-sales Service and Scintillating New Hooks are of the utmost importance.
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*BRANDING ain’t just for Big Dudes. This may well be Business Mistake No. 1 … the idea that “branding” is only for the likes of Coke and Sony and Nike. Baloney! Branding applies as much for the one-person accountancy run out of a spare bedroom as it does for Procter & Gamble.
*Credibility! In the end … Character Matters Most. Does he/she give their word, and then stick to it … come hell & high water? Can you rely on Her/Him in a pinch? Does she/he … CARE?
*Grace. Is it “a pleasure to do business with you”? Is it a pleasure to “be a member of your team”?
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Brand InsideAction
Brand YouTalent
Leadership ILeadership II
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People Power: The
Talent50
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“The Creative
Age is a wide-open
game.”
—Richard Florida, The Rise of the Creative Class
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1. People First!
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“The” Secret: Jack didn’t have a “vision”!
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Les Wexner: From sweaters to … people!
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“Leaders
‘do’ people. P-e-r-i-o-d.” —Anon.
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2. Soft Is Hard.
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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.]
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3. FUNDAMENTAL PREMISE: We Are in an Age
of Talent/Creativity/ Intellectual-capital Added.
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“Human creativity is the ultimate
economic resource.” —Richard Florida,
The Rise of the Creative Class
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Age of AgricultureIndustrial Age
Age of Information IntensificationAge of Creation Intensification
Source: Murikami Teruyasu, Nomura Research Institute
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Agriculture Age (farmers)
Industrial Age (factory workers)
Information Age (knowledge workers)
Conceptual Age (creators and empathizers)
Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
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“My wife and I went to a [kindergarten] parent-teacher conference and were informed that our budding
refrigerator artist, Christopher, would be receiving a grade of Unsatisfactory in art. We were shocked. How could any child—let alone our child—receive a poor
grade in art at such a young age? His teacher informed us that he had refused to color within the lines, which was a
state requirement for demonstrating ‘grade-level motor
skills.’ ” —Jordan Ayan, AHA!
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15 “Leading” Biz Schools
Design/Core: 0Design/Elective: 1
Creativity/Core: 0Creativity/Elective: 4
Innovation/Core: 0Innovation/Elective: 6
Source: DMI/Summer 2002Research by Thomas Lockwood
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4. Talent “Excellence” in Every Part of
Every Organization.
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Wegmans: #1/100 Best Companies to Work for
84%: Grocery stores “are all alike”46%: additional spend if customers have an “emotional
connection” to a grocery store rather than “are satisfied” (Gallup)
“Going to Wegmans is not just shopping, it’s an event.” —Christopher Hoyt, grocery consultant
“You cannot separate their strategy as a retailer from their strategy as an
employer.” —Darrell Rigby, Bain & Co.
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5. P.O.T./ Pursuit Of Talent =
OBSESSION.
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“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
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PARC’s Bob Taylor:
“Connoisseur of Talent”
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6. Talent Masters Understand Talent’s
Intangibles.
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Q: “If it were your $50K [life’s savings] and my $50K, what sort of Waiters would we look for?”
A:
“Enthusiasts!”
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7. HR Is “Cool.”
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Chicago:HRMAC
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“support function” / “cost center” / “bureaucratic
drag”
or …
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Are you “Rock Stars of the
Age of Talent”
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“HR doesn’t tend to hire a lot of
independent thinkers or people who stand up as moral compasses.” —Garold
Markle, Shell Offshore HR Exec (FC/08.05)
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8. HR Sits at The Head
Table.
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DD$21M
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9. Re-name “HR.”
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Talent Department
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“H.R.” to “H.E.D.” ???
Human
Enablement
Department
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People Department
Center for Talent Excellence
Seriously Cool People Who Recruit & Develop Seriously Cool People
Etc.
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10. There Is an “HR Strategy”/
“HR Vision”
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Our Mission
To develop and manage talent;to apply that talent,
throughout the world, for the benefit of clients;to do so in partnership;
to do so with profit.
WPP
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“Omnicom very simply is about talent. It’s about
the acquisition of talent, providing the
atmosphere so talent is attracted to it.” —John Wren
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What’s your company’s …
EVP?Employee Value Proposition, per Ed
Michaels et al., The War for Talent;
IBP/Internal Brand Promise per TP
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EVP = Challenge, professional growth, respect, satisfaction, opportunity, reward
Source: Ed Michaels et al., The War for Talent
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11. Acquire for Talent!
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Omnicom's acquisitions: “not for
size per se”; “buying talent;” “deepen a
relationship with a client.”
Source: Advertising Age
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12. There Is a FORMAL
Recruitment Strategy.
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Cirque du
Soleil!
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Cirque du Soleil: Talent (12 full-
time scouts, database of 20,000). R&D (40% of profits; 2X avg corp). Controls (shows are
profit centers; partners like Disney offset costs; $100M on
$500M). Scarcity builds buzz/brand (1 new show per year. “People tell me we’re leaving money on the table by not
duplicating our shows. They’re right.” —Daniel Lamarre, president).
Source: “The Phantasmagoria Factory”/Business 2.0/1-2.2004
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13. There Is a FORMAL Leadership
Development Strategy.
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14. There is a “World Class” Leadership
Development CENTER.
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Crotonville!*
*No B-schools!
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DD: 0 to 60mph in a flash (months)
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Getting to WOW Through Mastery of …
The Sales25.
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Getting Things Done: The
Power &
Implementation34.
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Presentation Excellence: The
PresX56
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The Interviewing Excellence: The
IntX31
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15. There Is a FORMAL
STRATEGIC HR Review Process.
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16. The “Top100,” and Every Unit’s Top10, Are
Consciously Managed.
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“In most companies, the Talent Review Process is a farce. At GE, Jack Welch and his two top HR people
visit each division for a day. They review the top 20 to 50 people by name. They talk about Talent Pool
strengthening issues. The Talent Review Process is a contact sport at
GE; it has the intensity and the importance of the budget
process at most companies.” —Ed Michaels
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17. “People”/ Talent” Reviews
Are the FIRST Reviews.
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18. HR Strategy = BUSINESS Strategy.
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19. Make it a “Cause Worth
Signing Up For.”
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G.H.: “Create a
‘cause,’ not a
‘business.’ ”
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“People want to be part of something larger than
themselves. They want to be part of something
they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sacrifice for , trust.” —Howard Schultz, Starbucks
(IBD/09.05)
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20. Unleash “Their” Full Potential!
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Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
“Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and
members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.”
“The best thing a leader can do for a
Great Group is to allow its members to discover their
greatness.”
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Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“free to do his or her absolute best” …
“allow its members to discover their
greatness.”
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“Firms will not ‘manage the careers’
of their employees. They will provide opportunities to enable
the employee to develop identity and adaptability and
thus be in charge of his or her own career.”
Tim Hall et al., “The New Protean Career Contract”
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RE/MAX: A “Life Success
Company”Source: Everybody Wins, Phil Harkins & Keith Hollihan
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21. Set Sky High
Standards.
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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
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22. Enlist Everyone in Challenge Century21.
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“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
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Distinct …
or … Extinct
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New Work SurvivalKit.2005
1. Mastery! (Best/Absurdly Good at Something!)2. “Manage” to Legacy (All Work = “Memorable”/“Braggable” WOW Projects!)3. A “USP”/Unique Selling Proposition (R.POV8: Remarkable Point of View … captured in 8 or less words) 4. Rolodex Obsession (From vertical/hierarchy/“suck up” loyalty to horizontal/“colleague”/“mate” loyalty)5. Entrepreneurial Instinct (A sleepless … Eye for Opportunity! E.g.: Small Opp for Independent Action beats faceless part of Monster Project)6. CEO/Leader/Businessperson/Closer (CEO, Me Inc. Period! 24/7!)7. Master of Improv (Play a dozen parts simultaneously, from Chief Strategist to Chief Toilet Scrubber)8. Sense of Humor (A willingness to Screw Up & Move On)9. Comfortable with Your Skin (Bring “interesting you” to work!)10. Intense Appetite for Technology (E.g.: How Cool-Active is your Web site? Do you Blog?)11. Embrace “Marketing” (Your own CSO/Chief Storytelling Officer)12. Passion for Renewal (Your own CLO/Chief Learning Officer) 13. Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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23. Pursue the Best!
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“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
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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.”
—Nathan Myhrvold, former Chief Scientist, Microsoft
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24. Up or Out.
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25. Ensure that the Review
Process Has INTEGRITY.
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25 = 100** “But what do I do that’s more important than developing
people? I don’t do the damn work. They do.”
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26. Pay Up!
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“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)
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Costco
*$17/hour (42% above Sam’s); very good health
plan; low t/o, low shrinkage*Low margins (“When I started, Sears, Roebuck was the Costco of the country, but they allowed someone to come in under them”—Jim Sinegal)
Source: “How Costco Became the Anti-Wal*Mart/NYT/07.17.05
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27. Training I: Train! Train!
Train!
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26.3
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3 Weeks in May
“Training” & Prep: 187“Work”: 41
(“Other”: 17)
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1%
vs.
367%
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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?
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“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
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Edward Jones’ Training Machine*
146 hours/employee/yearNew hires: 4X avg.
3.8% of payroll
* #1, “The 100 Best Companies To Work For”/Fortune/01.2003
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28. Training II: 100% “Business
People.”
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29. Training III: 100%
LEADERS.
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“I start with the premise that the
function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more
followers.” —Ralph Nader
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30. Training IV: Boss as Trainer-
in-Chief.
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Workout = 24 DPY in the Classroom
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31. Open Communication: NO BARRIERS.
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“The organizations we created have become tyrants. They have taken
control, holding us fettered, creating barriers that hinder rather than help our businesses. The lines that we drew on our neat organizational diagrams have turned into walls
that no one can scale or penetrate or even peer over.” —Frank Lekanne Deprez &
René Tissen, Zero Space: Moving Beyond Organizational Limits
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7. The …
Solutions25.**NO MORE “SILOS.” NO MORE
“STOVEPIPES.” (DAMN IT.)
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1. It’s the (OUR!) organization, stupid!2. Friction free! 3. No STOVEPIPES!4. “Stovepiping” is a F.O.—Firing Offense.5. ALL on the web! (ALL = ALL.)6. Open access!6. Project Managers rule! (E.g.: Control the purse strings and evals.)7. VALUE-ADDED RULES! (Services Rule.) (Experiences Rule.) (Brand Rules.)8. SOLUTIONS RULE! (We sell SOLUTIONS. Period. We sell PRODUCTIVITY & PROFITABILITY. Period.)9. Solutions = “Our ‘culture.’ ”10. Partner with B.I.C. (Best-In-Class). Period.
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32. Respect!
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“What creates trust, in the end, is
the leader’s manifest respect
for the followers.” —
Jim O’Toole, Leading Change
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“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
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33. Embrace the Whole Individual.
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34. Build Places of “Grace.”
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“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
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Rodale’s on “Grace” …
elegance … charm … loveliness … poetry in motion … kindliness ..
benevolence … benefaction … compassion
… beauty
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35. MBWA*: Visible
Leadership!
*Managing By Wandering Around
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“The first and greatest imperative of command
is to be present in person. Those who
impose risk must be seen to share it.” —John Keegan,
The Mask of Command
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36. Thank You!
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“The deepest human need
is the need to be appreciated.”
William James
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37. Promote for “people skills.” (THE REST IS
DETAILS.)
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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.
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“When assessing candidates, the first thing I looked for was energy and
enthusiasm for execution. Does she talk about the thrill of getting things done, the obstacles overcome, the role her people played —or does she
keep wandering back to strategy or philosophy?”
—Larry Bossidy, Honeywell/AlliedSignal, in Execution
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38. Honor Youth.
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“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
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39. Provide Early Leadership
Assignments.
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The
WOW!
Project
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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!)
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40. Create a FORMAL System
of Mentoring.
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W. L. GoreQuad/Graphics
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41. Diversity!
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“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
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CM Prof Richard Florida on “Creative
Capital”: “You cannot get a technologically innovative place unless it’s open to weirdness, eccentricity
and difference.”
Source: New York Times
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“Where do good new ideas come from? That’s simple! From
differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.
The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures and
disciplines.”
Nicholas Negroponte
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Duh!
“We want our associate population to mirror our customer population at
every level, from the executive suite all the way to the retail floor. In the marketplace, basically what I want to do is draw a concentric circle around
every one of our 2,300 stores, and I want the assortment in that store to match the ethnicity of the neighborhood it’s in. Some
neighborhoods are all Hispanic, so we can put in a full Hispanic format. That’s what Super Saver is. All the signage is in both
languages. There’s a 100 percent Spanish-speaking staff in the store.” —Larry Johnston, CEO, Albertsons
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42. WOMEN RULE.*
*Duh.
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“AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE: New Studies find that female managers
outshine their male counterparts in almost
every measure”Title, Special Report, Business Week
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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
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The Core Argument1. We are in a War for Talent.2. The war will intensify.3. Women are under-represented in our leadership ranks.4. Women and men are different.5. Women’s strengths match the New Economy’s leadership needs—to a striking degree.6. Women are also the principal purchasers of goods and services—retail and commercial.7. Ergo, women are a large part of “the answer” to the War for Talent issue/opportunity.
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43. Hire (& Protect!) Weird!
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“Are there enough weird people in
the lab these days?”V. Chmn., pharmaceutical house, to a lab director
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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
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Deviants, Inc. “Deviance tells the story of every mass
market ever created. What starts out weird and dangerous
becomes America’s next big corporate payday. So are you looking for the next mass market idea? It’s out there … way
out there.”
Source: Ryan Matthews & Watts Wacker, Fast Company (03.02)
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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
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Why Do I love Freaks?
(1) Because when Anything Interesting happens … it was a freak who did it. (Period.) (2) Freaks are fun. (Freaks are also a pain.) (Freaks are never boring.) (3) We need freaks. Especially in freaky times. (Hint: These are freaky times, for you & me & the CIA & the Army & Avon.) (4) A critical mass of freaks-in-our-midst automatically make us-who-are-not-so-freaky at least somewhat more freaky. (Which is a Good Thing in freaky times—see immediately above.) (5) Freaks are the only (ONLY) ones who succeed—as in, make it into the history books. (6) Freaks keep us from falling into ruts. (If we listen to them.) (We seldom listen to them.) (Which is why most of us—and our organizations—are in ruts. Make that chasms.)
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44. Cherish Boldness!
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“A focus on cost-cutting and efficiency has helped many organizations weather the
downturn, but this approach will ultimately
render them obsolete. Only the constant pursuit of
innovation can ensure long-term success.” —Daniel
Muzyka, Dean, Sauder School of Business, Univ of British Columbia (FT/09.17.04)
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GH (+TP):
“Get better” vs
“Get different”
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“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre
successes.”Phil Daniels, Sydney exec
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45. We Are All Unique.
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Beware Standardized Evals: One size NEVER fits all. One size fits
one. Period.
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48 Players = 48 Projects =
48 different success measures.
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46. Bosses “Win People
Over.”
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WHAT AN IDIOT: “Instead of employees being in the driver’s
seat, now we’re in the driver’s seat.”
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PJ: “Coaching is winning
players over.”
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47. GOAL: Voyages of
Mutual Discovery.
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“I don’t know.”
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I am inalterably opposed to “organization change,”
“empowerment,” “motivation.” The goal: to awaken the latent talent
already within, by providing opportunities worthy of the
individual’s investment of her or his most precious resources …
time and emotional commitment.
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Quests!
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Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
“Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and
members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.”
“The best thing a leader can do for a
Great Group is to allow its members to discover their
greatness.”
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Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“free to do his or her absolute best” …
“allow its members to discover their
greatness.”
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48. Foster Independence.
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“You must realize that how you invest your human capital matters as much as how you invest your
financial capital. Its rate of return determines your future options. Take a job for what it teaches you,
not for what it pays. Instead of a potential employer asking, ‘Where do you see yourself in 5 years?’ you’ll ask, ‘If I invest my mental assets
with you for 5 years, how much will they appreciate? How much will my portfolio of
career options grow?’ ”Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, futureWEALTH
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THE rise up and flee your cubicle STREET JOURNAL
Adventures in Capitalism
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THE I work for a company called
Me STREET JOURNAL
Adventures in Capitalism
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Thriving in 24/7 (Sally Helgesen)
START AT THE CORE. Nimbleness only possible if we “locate our inner voice,” take regular inventory of
where we are.
LEARN TO ZIGZAG. Think “gigs.” Think lifelong learning. Forget “old loyalty.” Work on optimism.
CREATE OUR OWN WORK. Articulate your value. Integrate your passions. I.D. your market. Run your
own business.
WEAVE A STRONG WEB OF INCLUSION. Build your own support network. Master the art of “looking
people up.”
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49. Enthusiasm!
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BZ: “I am a … Dispenser of Enthusiasm!”
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“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Most important, he upped the energy level at
Motorola.” —Fortune on Ed Zander/08.05
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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon
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New Economy Biz Degree Programs
MBA (Master of Business Administration) MMM1 (Master of Metaphysical Management)
MMM2 (Master of Metabolic Management)
MGLF (Master of Great Leaps Forward)
MTD (Master of Talent Development)
W/MwGTDw/oC (Woman/Man Who Gets Things Done without Certificate)
DE (Doctor of Enthusiasm)
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50. Talent = Brand.
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The Top 5 “Revelations”
Better talent wins.
Talent management is my job as leader.
Talented leaders are looking for the moon and stars.
Over-deliver on people’s dreams – they are volunteers.
Pump talent in at all levels, from all conceivable sources, all the time.
Source: Ed Michaels et al., The War for Talent
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Brand = Talent.
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Brand InsideAction
Brand YouTalent
Leadership ILeadership II
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Leadership I
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Brand InsideAction
Brand YouTalent
Leadership ILeadership II
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Leadership II
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Lead It …
Loud!
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Ouch!
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“The Bottleneck is at the Top of the Bottle”“Where are you likely to find people with the least diversity of experience, the largest investment in the past, and the
greatest reverence for industry dogma?
At the top!”
— Gary Hamel/“Strategy or Revolution”/Harvard Business Review
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Create a
Cause!
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G.H.: “Create a ‘cause,’ not a ‘business.’ ”
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“People want to be part of something larger than
themselves. They want to be part of something
they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sacrifice for , trust.” —Howard Schultz, Starbucks
(IBD/09.05)
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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon
(+TP’s writing room pics)
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“the wildest chimera of a moonstruck
mind” —The Federalist on TJ’s
Louisiana Purchase
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“The final test of a leader is that he leaves
behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.” —
Walter Lippmann
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Think
Legacy!
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“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of
questions. And the first question
for a leader always is: ‘Who do we intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’”
—Max De Pree, Herman Miller
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“In 1933, Thomas J. Watson Sr. gave a speech at the World’s Fair, ‘World Peace through
World Trade.’ We stood for something, right?” —Sam Palmisano
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CEO Assignment2002 (Bermuda):
“Please leap forward to 2007, 2012, or 2022, and write a business history of
Bermuda. What will have been said about your company during your
tenure?”
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“To win this race, Kerry needs to stop focusing on Election Day and start thinking about his would-be
presidency’s last day. What does he want his legacy to be? When sixth-graders in the year 2108 read about the Kerry
presidency, what does he want the one or two sentences that accompany his photo
to say?” —Kenneth Baer/Washington Post/092604
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Ah, kids: “What is your vision for the future?” “What have you accomplished since your first book?” “Close your eyes and
imagine me immediately doing something about what you’ve just said. What would it be?”
“Do you feel you have an obligation to ‘Make the world a
better place’?”
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Find ’em!
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“The” Secret: Jack didn’t have a “vision”!
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Les Wexner (Jack+) : From sweaters to …
people!
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Respect ’em!
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Amen!
“What creates trust, in the end, is the leader’s manifest
respect for the followers.” — Jim O’Toole, Leading
Change
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“Don’t belittle!” —OD
Consultant
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“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
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“We behaved as if we were guests in their house. We
treated them not as a defeated people, but as
allies. Our success became their success.” —“How One Soldier Brought
Democracy to Iraq: The Mayor of Ar Rutbah” (MAJ James Gavrilis/USA Special Forces
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“We were friendly and respectful whenever we met a Bedouin or farmer, often sharing
tea with them in the middle of the open desert. Our behavior sent the clearest
message: We cared more about the people of Ar Rutbah than did the Fedayeen. … After all,
we had done everything possible to limit damage
to civilian infrastructure and private property. … We treated enemy wounded
and distributed contraband food. I stopped our final assault to institute a day-long cease-fire as a gesture to the people of
the city.” — “How One Soldier Brought Democracy to Iraq: The
Mayor of Ar Rutbah” (MAJ James Gavrilis/USA Special Forces
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Listen Up!
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“If you don’t listen, you don’t sell
anything.”
—Carolyn Marland/MD/Guardian Group
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Make It a Grand
Adventure!
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“Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to
get things done.” – Peter Drucker
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“If you have ten thousand
regulations you destroy all respect
for law.” —WSC
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Quests!
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“I don’t know.”
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Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
“Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and
members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.”
“The best thing a leader can do for a
Great Group is to allow its members to discover their
greatness.”
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Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“free to do his or her absolute best” …
“allow its members to discover their
greatness.”
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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more
and become more, you are a leader." —John Quincy Adams
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“[Other] admirals more frightened of losing than anxious to win”
SP: “But can you turn a ‘defensive player’ into an ‘offensive player’?”
TP: “Yes! Work with him/her to re-frame their principal project to the point that the ego is engaged
and it becomes a ‘life compulsion.’ ” *
* “If you and I had $150K in the bank and on the line and the day before the opening the Fire Inspector …”
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“Nobody can prevent you from choosing to
be exceptional.” —Mark Sanborn, The Fred Factor
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist,
That is all.” —Oscar Wilde
“Make your life itself a creative work of art.” —Mike Ray, The Highest
Goal
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“Never doubt that a small group of
committed people can change the
world. Indeed it is the only thing that
ever has.” —Margaret Mead
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Trumpet an Exhilarating
Story!
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“A key – perhaps the key – to leadership is
the effective communication
of a story.”—Howard Gardner/Leading Minds:
An Anatomy of Leadership
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“Leaders don’t just make products and make decisions.
Leaders make meaning.”
– John Seely Brown
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Language Power!
“… the language we speak determines how we react to the world around us …” —Diane Ackerman/
An Alchemy of Mind
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Leader Job 1
Paint Portraits of
Excellence!
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Live Your
Story!
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MBWA
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“The first and greatest imperative of command
is to be present in person. Those who
impose risk must be seen to share it.”
—John Keegan, The Mask of Command
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“It is necessary for the President to be the
nation’s No. 1 actor.”
FDR
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“You must be the change you
wish to see in the world.”
Gandhi
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Obsess on Your Personal
“Bottom Line”!
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You = Your
Calendar
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Consciously Mentor!
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What I Learned
HWBjr: Excellence, Accountability, Initiative, K.I.S.S., Leader Love
Dick: Empowerment, Entrepreneurship, Challenge, Execution (Project > Paper), Accountability, MBWA,
K.I.S.S., Fanatic Customer-centrism (Customer>Command, Marines>Regiment),
Leader Love, Output, “Do”>“Be”
Nameless: “Tangible” vs “Palpable” (Bureaucracy, Control, Tight Leashes, Command-centric,
Demoralization, Paper > Project, Product = Paper, K.I.C.S.)
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What I Learned
Ben: Decency, Soft Power, Fanatic Customer-centrism (“Do”>“Be”)
Walter: Fanatic Mission-centrism, Soft Power, Relationship-management, Execution,
Accountability, Early to Bed …
Bob: Pos>Neg/Recognition, K.I.S.S., The Way of the Demo (Execution), Hero-building,
Mission-centrism, “Do”>“Be”
Bill: De-centralization, Recognition, Support-staff Centrism, Measurement (K.I.S.S.), Soft
Power (Paint ’n Pride), Rapid Culture Change
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Try It!
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Sam’s
Secret #1!
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“Fail faster. Succeed sooner.”
David Kelley/IDEO
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Insist on
Speed!
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Read It Closely: “We don’t sell
insurance anymore. We sell speed.”
Peter Lewis, Progressive
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“If things seem under control, you’re just
not going fast enough.” —Mario Andretti
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“Strategy meetings held once
or twice a year” to “Strategy meetings needed several
times a week”
Source: New York Times on Meg Whitman/eBay
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He who has the quickest O.O.D.A.
Loops* wins!*Observe. Orient. Decide. Act. /
Col. John Boyd
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Demand
Action!
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“We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.” — Herb Kelleher
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“The most successful people
are those who are good at
plan B.” —James Yorke,
mathematician, on chaos theory in The New Scientist
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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!)
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A man approached JP Morgan, held up an envelope, and said, “Sir, in my hand I hold a guaranteed formula for success, which I
will gladly sell you for $25,000.”
“Sir,” JP Morgan replied, “I do not know what is in the envelope, however if you show me, and I like it, I
give you my word as a gentleman that I will pay you what you ask.”
The man agreed to the terms, and handed over the envelope. JP Morgan opened it, and extracted a single sheet of paper. He gave it one look, a mere glance, then handed the piece of paper back
to the gent.
And paid him the agreed-upon $25,000.
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1. Every morning, write a list of the things that need to be done that day.
2. Do them. Source: Hugh MacLeod/tompeters.com/NPR
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“ ‘Strategy’? In retail, ‘execution’ is ‘the last ninety-five
percent.’ ” —Former BigCo CEO/Retail
“Most anybody can ‘sell.’ Damn few can ‘close.’ ” —Former BigCo CEO/Retail
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“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
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Cut the
Crap!
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“Realism is the heart of execution.”
—Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/ Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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“robust dialogue”
—Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/ Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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Make Accountability
Holy Writ!
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35 years in the
baking …
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Ac-count-a-bil-ity!!
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De-cent-ral-iz-
a-tion!!
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HP’s Big “Duh”!
Decentralize ($90B)
Undo “Matrix”Accountability
Source: “HP Says Goodbye To Drama”/BW/09.05/re Mark Hurd’s first 5 months
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“Monkeys can’t live in midair!” —Bob Townsend
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Make the Incentives (Signals)
Crystal Clear!
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Incentives that work: Clear/ unequivocal. Huge consequences. Different from now. Stable (for a few
years). Stand out (1 of 1). Giant aspirations (B.H.A.G.) Basis for
“deep dip” promotion/s.
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Master the End Run!
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Build a “School on top of a school” (The Parallel
Universe Strategy)
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JKC
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Be Prepared!
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“We may not be interested in chaos
but chaos is interested
in us.” —Robert Cooper, The Breaking of Nations:
Order and Chaos in the Twenty-first Century
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H5N
1
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Kroll/SARS: “don’t over-react”Kroll/H5N1:
“devastating”Source: Newsweek/10.24.05
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Eat Change For Breakfast!
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“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like
irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
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“We eat change for breakfast!
—Harry Quadracci, QuadGraphics
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“The most successful people
are those who are good at
plan B.” —James Yorke,
mathematician, on chaos theory, in The New Scientist
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Dispense
Enthusiasm!
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BZ: “I am a … Dispenser of Enthusiasm!”
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“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more
and become more, you are a leader." —John Quincy Adams
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“Most important,
he upped the energy level at Motorola.” —Fortune on Ed Zander/08.05
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“A man without a smiling face
must not open a shop.” —Chinese Proverb*
*Courtesy Tom Morris, The Art of Achievement
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James Woolsey, former CIA director: “If you’re enthusiastic
about the things you’re working on,
people will come ask you to do interesting
things.”
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“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be
swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow.
To convince them, you must yourself believe.” —Winston
Churchill
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Insist on Excellence
as the Norm!
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What is In Search of Excellence all
about?
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What is In Search of Excellence all about:
People. Emotion.
Engagement. Empowerment.
Aspiration. Caring.
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious
life?” —Mary Oliver
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Accept Nothing Less Than
Transformation!
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Five Myths About Changing Behavior
*Crisis is a powerful impetus for change*Change is motivated by fear
*The facts will set us free*Small, gradual changes are always easier
to make and sustain*We can’t change because our brains
become “hardwired” early in life
Source: Fast Company/05.2005
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Participant: “How long does it take to bring about significant change?”
TP: “Whatever you say.”
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“[Other] admirals more frightened of losing than anxious to win”
SP: “But can you turn a ‘defensive player’ into an ‘offensive player’?”
TP: “Yes! Work with him/her to re-frame their principal project to the point that the ego is engaged
and it becomes a ‘life compulsion.’ ” *
* “If you and I had $150K in the bank and on the line and the day before the opening the fire Inspector …”
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Radiate
Passion!
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Charles Handy on the “Alchemists”:
“Passion was what drove these people, passion for
their product or their cause. If you care enough, you will find out what
you need to know. Or you will experiment and not worry if the
experiment goes wrong. Passion as the secret to learning is an odd secret to propose, but I believe that it works at all
levels and at all ages. Sadly, passion is not a word often heard in the elephant organizations, nor in schools,
where it can seem disruptive.”
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“To change minds , leaders make particular use
of two tools: the stories that they tell and
the lives that they lead.” —Howard Gardner, Changing Minds
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Excellence =
X1*
* Tom Watson sr/1 minute
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Embrace the Intangibles!
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“Hard is soft. Soft is hard.”
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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.]
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Keep It Basic!
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“I wanted GE to operate with the speed, informality, and open communication of a
corner store. Corner stores often have strategy right.
With their limited resources, they have to rely on laser-
like focus on doing one thing very well.” —Jack Welch/Fortune/04.05
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Keep It
Simple!
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Sir Richard’s Rules:
Follow your passions.Keep it simple.
Get the best people to help you.
Re-create yourself.Play.
Source: Fortune on Branson/10.03
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Kevin Roberts’ Credo
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!
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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Steve Jobs
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“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre
successes.”Phil Daniels, Sydney exec
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Avoid … Moderation!
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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
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Seek the Edge!
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“Do one thing every day that scares you.” —Eleanor
Roosevelt
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Nelson’s secret: “[Other] admirals more frightened of losing than
anxious to win”
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Free the Lunatic
Within!
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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
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“You can’t behave in a calm, rational
manner. You’ve got to be out there on
the lunatic fringe.” —
Jack Welch
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Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.
Steve Jobs
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TP/Chile: “I don’t know if it’s ‘possible.’
I do know it’s ‘necessary.’”
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Forward,
March!
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“In classical times when Cicero had finished
speaking, the people said, ‘How well he spoke,’ but when Demosthenes had
finished speaking, they said,
‘Let us march.’” —
Adlai Stevenson
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Let us
march!
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TP/Chile: “I don’t know if it’s ‘possible.’
I do know it’s ‘necessary.’”
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Brand InsideAction
Brand YouTalent
Leadership ILeadership II
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Leadership II
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Tom Peters’
Re-imagine!Leading for Excellence
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The
Leadership50
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“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like
irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
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I. The Basic Premise.
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1. Leadership Is a …
Mutual Discovery Process.
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Quests!
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Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
“Groups become great only when everyone in them, leaders and
members alike, is free to do his or her absolute best.”
“The best thing a leader can do for a
Great Group is to allow its members to discover their
greatness.”
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Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“free to do his or her absolute best” …
“allow its members to discover their
greatness.”
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II. The Leadership
Types.
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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.
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Whoops: Jack didn’t have a vision!
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Les Wexner: From sweaters to
people!
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3. But Then Again, There Are Times When This “Cult of Personality”
(Type II Leadership) Stuff Actually Works!
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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon
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4. Find the “Businesspeople”!
(Type III Leadership)
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I.P.M. (Inspired Profit
Mechanic)
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5. All Organizations
Need the Golden Leadership
Triangle.
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The Golden Leadership Triangle: (1) Talent
Fanatic … (2) Visionary …
(3) Inspired Profit Mechanic.
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III. The Leadership
Dance.
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6. Leaders …
SHOW UP!
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“A body can pretend to care, but they can’t pretend to be there.” — Texas Bix Bender
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MBWA
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7. Leaders … LOVE the
MESS!
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“If things seem under control, you’re just not
going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti
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8. Leaders
DO!
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“Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to
get things done.” – Peter Drucker
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“Execution is the job of the
business leader.” —Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/
Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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A man approached JP Morgan, held up an envelope, and said, “Sir, in my hand I hold a guaranteed formula for success, which I
will gladly sell you for $25,000.”
“Sir,” JP Morgan replied, “I do not know what is in the envelope, however if you show me, and I like it, I
give you my word as a gentleman that I will pay you what you ask.”
The man agreed to the terms, and handed over the envelope. JP Morgan opened it, and extracted a single sheet of paper. He gave it one look, a mere glance, then handed the piece of paper back
to the gent.
And paid him the agreed-upon $25,000.
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1. Every morning, write a list of the things that need to be done that day.
2. Do them. Source: Hugh MacLeod/tompeters.com/NPR
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“We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.” — Herb Kelleher
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9. BUT … Leaders
Know When to Wait.
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Tex Schramm: The
“too hard” box!
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10. Leaders
FOCUS!
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“To Don’t ” List
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11. Leaders …
Set CLEAR DESIGN SPECS.
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Danger: S.I.O. (Strategic
Initiative Overload)
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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!
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IV. If It’s Not Broken …
Break It!
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12. Leaders …FORGET!/
Leaders … DESTROY!
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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
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13. BUT … Leaders
Have to Deliver, So They Worry About “Throwing the Baby Out with the
Bathwater.”
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“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)
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14. Leaders …
HONOR THE USURPERS.
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Saviors-in-Waiting
Disgruntled CustomersUpstart CompetitorsRogue EmployeesFringe Suppliers
Wayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision
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15. Leaders Make [Lotsa] Mistakes
– and MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT!
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“Fail faster. Succeed sooner.”
David Kelley/IDEO
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Sam’s
Secret #1!
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16. Leaders Make …
BIG MISTAKES!
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“Reward excellent
failures. Punish mediocre
successes.”Phil Daniels, Sydney exec (and, de facto, Jack)
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V. Create.
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17. Leaders Put INNOVATION
First!
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“A focus on cost-cutting and efficiency has helped many organizations weather the
downturn, but this approach will ultimately
render them obsolete. Only the constant pursuit of
innovation can ensure long-term success.” —Daniel
Muzyka, Dean, Sauder School of Business, Univ of British Columbia (FT/09.17.04)
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18. Leaders Love the
Top Line!
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CRO*
*Chief Revenue Officer
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19. Leaders Are Not
COPYCATS.
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“To grow, companies need to break out of a
vicious cycle of competitive
benchmarking and imitation.” —W. Chan Kim & Renée
Mauborgne, “Think for Yourself —Stop Copying a Rival,” Financial Times/08.11.03
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“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 it’s 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.” —Seth Godin, Fast Company/02.2003
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20. Leaders Relentlessly Pursue
DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE!
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“Get better” vs
“Get different”
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21. Leaders … Make Their Mark /
Leaders … Do Stuff That Matters
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“I never, ever thought of myself as a businessman. I was interested in
creating things I would be
proud of.” —Richard Branson
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“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of
questions. And the first question
for a leader always is: ‘Who do we intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’”
—Max De Pree, Herman Miller
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VI. Value Added
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22. Leaders Push Their
Organizations W-a-y Up the Value-added/
Intellectual Capital Chain
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Up, Up, Up, Up,Up the Value-added Ladder.
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And the “M” Stands for … ?
Gerstner’s IBM: “Systems Integrator of choice.”/BW (“Lou, help us turn ‘all this’
into that long-promised ‘revolution.’ ” )
IBM Global Services* (*Integrated Systems Services Corporation):
$55B
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Planetary Rainmaker-in-Chief!
“Palmisano’s strategy is to expand tech’s borders by pushing users—and entire
industries—toward radically different business models. The payoff
for IBM would be access to an ocean of revenue—Palmisano estimates it at $500 billion a year—that technology companies
have never been able to touch.” —Fortune
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“Big Brown’s New Bag: UPS
Aims to Be the Traffic Manager for Corporate
America” —Headline/BW/07.19.2004
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“[Closing/selling Boeings 8,000-person facility in Wichita] was an
important decision in moving
forward with Boeing’s long-term strategy of
becoming a large-scale integrator.” —The Wichita Eagle/06.16.2005
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“Instant Infrastructure: GE Becomes a General
Store for Developing Countries” —headline/
NYT/07.16.05
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The Value-added Ladder/Stuff ‘n’ Things
Goods Raw Materials
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The Value-added Ladder/Stuff & Transactions
ServicesGoods
Raw Materials
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The Value-added Ladder/Opportunity-seeking
Gamechanging Solutions /Business Advantage
ServicesGoods
Raw Materials
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23. Leaders Know that the Value-added Revolution” rests
upon: Emphasizing Experiences!
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“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
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$798
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Sales per Square Foot/Grocery
Albertson’s: $384Wal*Mart: $415
Whole Foods: $798
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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
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2/503Q04
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The “Experience Ladder”
Experiences Services
Goods Raw Materials
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One company’s answer:
CXO**Chief eXperience Officer
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24. Leaders Pursue the “Big Two”
NEW MARKET OPPORTUNITIES
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Women!
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Just Say No.
Male
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“Women are the majority market” —Fara Warner/
The Power of the Purse
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?????????
Home Furnishings … 94%Vacations … 92% (Adventure Travel … 70%/ $55B travel equipment)
Houses … 91%D.I.Y. (major “home projects”) … 80%
Consumer Electronics … 51% (66% home computers)
Cars … 68% (90%)All consumer purchases … 83%
Bank Account … 89%Household investment decisions … 67%Small business loans/biz starts … 70%
Health Care … 80%
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USA/F.Stats: Short ’n (Very) Sweet
>50% of stock ownership, $13T total wealth (2X in 15 years)
>$7T consumer & biz spending (>50% GDP; > Japan GDP); >80% consumer spdg (Consumer = 70% all spdg)
50% biz travel
57% BA degrees (2002); = ed & social strata, no wage gap
60% Internet users; >50% primary users of electronic equipment
WimBiz: Employees > F500; 10M+: 33% all US Biz
60% work; 46M (divorced, widowed, never married)
Source: Fara Warner, The Power of the Purse
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Thanks, Marti
Barletta!
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The Perfect Answer
Jill and Jack buy slacks in black…
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1. Men and women are different.2. Very different.3. VERY, VERY DIFFERENT.4. Women & Men have a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y nothing in common.5. Women buy lotsa stuff.6. WOMEN BUY A-L-L THE STUFF.7. Women’s Market = Opportunity No. 1.8. Men are (STILL) in charge.9. MEN ARE … TOTALLY, HOPELESSLY CLUELESS ABOUT WOMEN.10. Women’s Market = Opportunity No. 1.
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Good Thinking, Guys!
“Kodak Sharpens Digital Focus On Its Best
Customers:
Women” —Page 1 Headline/WSJ/07.2005
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Boomers-Geezers!
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Just Say No. 18-44
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2000-2010 Stats
18-44: -1%
55+: +21%(55-64: +47%)
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44-65: “New Customer Majority” *
*45% larger than 18-43; 60% larger by 2010Source: Ageless Marketing, David Wolfe & Robert Snyder
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“The New Customer Majority is the only adult
market with realistic prospects for significant
sales growth in dozens of product lines for thousands of companies.” —David Wolfe & Robert
Snyder, Ageless Marketing
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“LOVE THOSE BOOMERS: Their New Attitudes
and Lifestyles Are a Marketer’s
Dream” —Cover story, BW, 10.24.05
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VII. Technology.
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25. Leaders Bet the Farm on the New Technology!
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We all live in Dell-Wal*Mart-
eBay-Google World!
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“the FedEx Economy”
—headline/New York Times/10.08.05
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“UPS used to be a trucking
company with technology. Now it’s
a technology company with
trucks.” —Forbes
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Power Tools for Power Solutions/
Strategies! —TP
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“Beware of the tyranny of making Small
Changes to Small Things.
Rather, make Big Changes to Big
Things.” —Roger Enrico, former Chairman, PepsiCo
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26. Needed? Type IV Leadership: Technology
Dreamer-True Believer
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The Golden Leadership Quadrangle: (1) Talent
Fanatic … (2) Visionary … (3) Inspired Profit Mechanic … (4) Technology Dreamer-
True Believer
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VIII. Talent.
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27. When It Comes to
TALENT … Leaders Always Go
Berserk!
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Brand = Talent.
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“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
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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.”
—Nathan Myhrvold, former Chief Scientist, Microsoft
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Our Mission
To develop and manage talent;to apply that talent,
throughout the world, for the benefit of clients;to do so in partnership;
to do so with profit.
WPP
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“HR doesn’t tend to hire a lot of
independent thinkers or people who stand up as moral compasses.” —Garold
Markle, Shell Offshore HR Exec (FC/08.05)
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DD$21M
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“Leaders ‘do’
people. Period.” —Anon.
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28. Leaders Know …WOMEN
RULE.**Duh.
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“AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE: New Studies find
that female managers outshine their male
counterparts in almost every measure”
Title, Special Report, Business Week
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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: Women Managers
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????????
8/500
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29. Leaders
Hire WEIRD
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Employees: “Are there enough weird people in the lab
these days?”V. Chmn., pharmaceutical house, to a lab director
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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
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30. Leaders Strongly Urge All Employees
Follow the “BRAND YOU” ADVENTURE
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“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
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“ ‘Disintermediation’ is overrated. Those who fear disintermediation should in fact be afraid of
irrelevance—disintermediation is just another way of saying
that you’ve become irrelevant to your
customers.” —John Battelle/Point/Advertising Age/07.05
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Distinct …
or … Extinct
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“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you
can create your own legend or not.”
Isabel Allende
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New Work SurvivalKit2005
1. Mastery! (Best/Absurdly Good at Something!)2. “Manage” to Legacy (All Work = “Memorable”/“Braggable” WOW Projects!)3. A “USP”/Unique Selling Proposition (R.POV8: Remarkable Point of View … captured in 8 or less words) 4. Rolodex Obsession (From vertical/hierarchy/“suck up” loyalty to horizontal/“colleague”/“mate” loyalty)5. Entrepreneurial Instinct (A sleepless … Eye for Opportunity! E.g.: Small Opp for Independent Action beats faceless part of Monster Project)6. CEO/Leader/Businessperson/Closer (CEO, Me Inc. Period! 24/7!)7. Mistress of Improv (Play a dozen parts simultaneously, from Chief Strategist to Chief Toilet Scrubber)8. Sense of Humor (A willingness to Screw Up & Move On)9. Comfortable with Your Skin (Bring “interesting you” to work!)10. Intense Appetite for Technology (E.g.: How Cool-Active is your Web site? Do you Blog?)11. Embrace “Marketing” (Your own CSO/Chief Storytelling Officer)12. Passion for Renewal (Your own CLO/Chief Learning Officer) 13. Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
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The Rule of Positioning
“If you can’t describe your position in
eight words or less, you don’t have
a position.” — Jay Levinson and
Seth Godin, Get What You Deserve!
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Have you invested as much this year* in your career as in
your car?*Absolute$$$, % of Asset Value
Source: Molly Sargent
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31. Leaders Don’t Create “Followers”:
THEY CREATE LEADERS!
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“I start with the premise that the
function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more
followers.”—Ralph Nader
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“The Marine Corps believes that all Marines must learn
to lead. In order to survive the chaos and uncertainty of war, a
Marine is taught how to be decisive, how to take care of others, and how
to take responsibility for her actions.” —Leading from the Front, Angie Morgan and Courtney Lynch
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32. Leaders Develop Leadership Teams that “Look Like the
Market”
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Albertsons “Gets It”*
Albertsons CEO Larry Johnston (a GE alum) on women in top slots: “Women have insights into our customers that no man—no matter
how bright, no matter how hard working—can match. That’s important when 85 percent of all consumer buying decisions made in our stores
are made by women.”
Retail analyst Burt Flickinger calls the absence of women in top slots, pre-Johnston, the company’s “tragic flaw.” He adds, “It was a bunch of old white guys making erroneous
assumptions and erroneous conclusions about women and the multicultural consumers that make up the majority
of Albertsons’ customers.”
*Only large global corporation with over 50% women (6 of 11) on its Board
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IX. Passion.
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33. Leaders …
“Sell”
PASSION!
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G.H.: “Create a ‘cause,’ not a ‘business.’
”
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Charles Handy on the “Alchemists”:
“Passion was what drove these people, passion for
their product or their cause. If you care enough, you will find out what
you need to know. Or you will experiment and not worry if the
experiment goes wrong. Passion as the secret to learning is an odd secret to propose, but I believe that it works at all
levels and at all ages. Sadly, passion is not a word often heard in the elephant organizations, nor in schools,
where it can seem disruptive.”
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34. Leaders Know: ENTHUSIASM
BEGETS ENTHUSIASM!
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“Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“Most important, he upped the energy level at Motorola.”
—Fortune on Ed Zander/08.05
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“Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be
swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow.
To convince them, you must yourself believe.” —Winston
Churchill
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“A man without a smiling face
must not open a shop.” —Chinese Proverb*
*Courtesy Tom Morris, The Art of Achievement
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35. Leaders Are …
in a Hurry
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“We don’t sell insurance
anymore. We sell speed.”
Peter Lewis, Progressive
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36. Leaders Focus on the
SOFT STUFF!
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“Hard” Is “Soft” “Soft” Is “Hard”
—In Search of Excellence
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“If I could have chosen not to tackle the IBM culture head-on, I probably wouldn’t have. My bias coming in was toward
strategy, analysis and measurement. In comparison, changing the attitude and behaviors of hundreds of thousands of people
is very, very hard. [Yet] I came to see in my time at IBM that
culture isn’t just one aspect of the game—it is the
game.” —Lou Gerstner, Who Says Elephants Can’t
Dance
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“In the end, management doesn’t
change culture. Management invites
the workforce itself to change the culture.”
—Lou Gerstner
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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.]
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X. The “Job” of Leading.
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37. Leaders Know It’s
ALL SALES ALL THE TIME.
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TP: If you don’t LOVE SALES … find
another life. (Don’t pretend
you’re a “leader.”) (See TP’s The Project50.)
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38. Leaders
LOVE “POLITICS.”
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TP: If you don’t LOVE POLITICS … find
another life. (Don’t pretend
you’re a “leader.”)
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39. Leaders
Give … RESPECT!
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Amen!
“What creates trust, in the end, is the leader’s
manifest respect for the followers.” — Jim O’Toole, Leading Change
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“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
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40. Leaders Say
“Thank You.”
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“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]
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41. Leaders … Are The Brand
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“You must be the change you
wish to see in the world.” —Gandhi
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“You can’t lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a
horse.” —John Peers, President, Logical Machines Corporation
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42. Leaders …
Have a GREAT STORY!
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“Leaders don’t just make products and make decisions.
Leaders make meaning.”
– John Seely Brown
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“A key – perhaps the key – to leadership is
the effective communication
of a story.”—Howard Gardner/Leading Minds:
An Anatomy of Leadership
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43. Leaders love the
word …
Excellence!
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Leader Job 1
Paint Portraits of
Excellence!
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XI. Introspection.
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44. Leaders …
Enjoy Leading.
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“Warren, I know you want to ‘be’ president. But do you want to ‘do’
president?”
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45. Leaders …
KNOW THEMSELVES.
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Step #1:
Buy a Mirror!
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“The First step in a ‘dramatic’ ‘organizational
change program’ is obvious—dramatic personal
change!” —RG
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46. Leaders
LAUGH!
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XII. The End Game.
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47. Great Leaders
Play Offense!
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Nelson’s secret: “[Other] admirals more frightened of losing than
anxious to win”
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48. Great Leaders
Live on the Edge!
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Kevin Roberts’ Credo
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!
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49. Leaders Free the Lunatic
Within!
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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
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“You can’t behave in a calm, rational
manner. You’ve got to be out there on
the lunatic fringe.” —
Jack Welch
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50. Leaders (and Management Gurus)
Know WHEN TO LEAVE!
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“In classical times when Cicero had finished
speaking, the people said, ‘How well he spoke,’ but when Demosthenes had
finished speaking, they said,
‘Let us march.’” —
Adlai Stevenson
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Let us
march!
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