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Tom Peters’ Excellence2005: The Relentless Pursuit of Dramatic Difference ! DramDiff.1hour.29 November 2005. Slides at … tompeters.com* *Also see SunTrust.LONG. Re-set the Gauges to Zero !. THREE BILLION NEW CAPITALISTS —Clyde Prestowitz.
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Tom Peters’Excellence2005:The RelentlessPursuit ofDramatic Difference!DramDiff.1hour.29 November 2005
Business Mantra #1* of the ’00s:DON’T TRY TO COMPETE WITH WAL*MART ON PRICE OR CHINA ON COST! *Mantra #2: See Mantra #1
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
“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
“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
Franchise Lost!TP:“How many of you[600]reallycravea new Chevy?”NYC/IIR/061205
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
4X:“At London Drugs, everyone cares about everything.”—Wynne Powell
London Drugs*Each major department a “category killer” (pharmacy, computers, photo-photo finishing, cosmetics)*“Service added”/ Experience (e.g., consultation booths for pharmaceutical Clients)*Brilliant, eye-popping design-merchandising*Price point: peanuts to super-premium*Massive training, very low staff t/o*Big-bet experimentation-innovation*Locales begging for LD*Financials to die for*IS/IT/SC pioneers (compared favorably to Wal*Mart’s supply- chain management; exquisite vendor-partner programs)*Effectively deflected Wal*Mart incursion*Philosophy: fun, enthusiasm, innovation, commitment, care, talent development
No Excuses/Wegmans:#1*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.*100 Best Companies to Work for/Fortune
7X. 730A-800P. F12A.**’93-’03/10 yr annual return: CB: 29%; WM: 17%; HD: 16%. Mkt Cap: 48% p.a.
Thesaurus of WOW! “They” hate it if you call them “bankers.” “They” love it, on the other hand, when you ask to see their #s—stupendous. “They” are … Commerce Bank. These absurdly fast growing, insanely profitable “retailers,” rewriting the rules of East Coast retail banking, sent me a copy of their booklet, “Traditions.” It explicates their “Wow the Customer Philosophy.” At the end there’s “A Collection of Commerce Lingo.” I won’t define (use your imagination), but simply offer a small sample: “Fans, Not Customers.” “Say YES … 1 to say YES, 2 to say NO.” (A staffer has to get a supervisor’s approval to say “no” to anything.) “Recover!!! To Err Is Human; To Recover Is Devine.” “Leave ’Em Speechless.” “Positive Behavior.” “Positive Language.” “Kill A Stupid Rule.” (Get cash rewards for exposing dumb internal rules “that impede our ability to WOW!”) Make the ‘WOW! Answer Guide’ Your Best Friend.” “Buzz Bee.” “CommerceWOW!Zone.” (A K-12 financial education program.) “Doctor WOW!” “Ten-Minute Principle.” (“Stores” open 10 minutes before posted hours, stay open 10 minutes after posted hours—and the hours, such as open 7 days a week, are already incredibly generous & tradition-shattering.) “Wall of WOW!” “WOW! Awards.” (The annual recognition ceremony—Radio City Music Hall, with the Rockettes, in ’05.) “WOW! Patrol.” “WOW! Spotlight.” “WOW Van.” “WOW Wiz.” (A service superstar.) Etc.
1000/204/4** “Princes” & “Princesses” who said “Yes” to the Dream (top agents, confident to operate without a safety net)Source: Everybody Wins, Phil Harkins & Keith Hollihan
RE/MAX: A “LifeSuccessCompany”Source: Everybody Wins, Phil Harkins & Keith Hollihan
WDCP*: $150 to remove “problem beaver”; $750-$1,000 for flood-control piping … so that beavers can stay.*“Wildlife Damage-control Professional”Source: WSJ
“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of similar companies, employing similarpeople, with similareducational backgrounds, coming up with similarideas, producing similarthings, with similarprices and similarquality.”Kjell Nordström and Jonas Ridderstråle, Funky Business
“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
Duet … Whirlpool … “washing machine” to “fabric care system”… white goods: “a sea of undifferentiated boxes”… $400 to $1,300 … “the Ferrari of washing machines” … consumer: “They are our little mechanical buddies. They have personality. When they are running efficiently, our lives are running efficiently. They are part of my family.” …“machine as aesthetic showpiece” … “laundry room” to “family studio” / “designer laundry room”(complements Sub-Zero refrigerator and home-theater center)Source: New York Times Magazine/01.11.2004
1997-2001>$600: 10% to 18%$400-$600: 49% to 32%<$400: 41% to 50%Source: Trading Up, Michael Silverstein & Neil Fiske
“The ‘mass market’ is dead. Consumers look for either price or quality.The middle is untenable.”—Walter Robb/COO/Whole Foods/Investors Business Daily/06.20.05
The “Small Guys” Guide: Wallop Wal*Mart16 *Niche-aimed. (Never, ever “all things for all people,” a “mini-Wal*Mart.) *Never attack the monsters head on! (Instead steal niche business and lukewarm customers.) *“Dramatically Different” (La Difference ... within our community, our industry regionally, etc … is as obvious as the end of one’s nose!) (THIS IS WHERE MOST MIDGETS COME UP SHORT.) *Compete on value/experience/intimacy, not price. (You ain’t gonna beat the behemoths on cost-price in 9.99 out of 10 cases.) *Emotional bond with Clients, Vendors. (BEAT THE BIGGIES ON EMOTION/CONNECTION!!)
“You do not merely want to be the best of the best.You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.”Jerry Garcia
The “Small Guys” Guide: Wallop Wal*Mart16 *Hands-on, emotional leadership. (“We are a great & cool & intimate & joyful & dramatically different team working to transform our Clients lives via Consistently Incredible Experiences!”) *A community star! (“Sell” local-ness per se. Sell the hell out of it!) *An incredible experience, from the first to last moment—and then in the follow-up! (“These guys are cool! They ‘get’ me! They love me!”) *DESIGN DRIVEN! (“Design” is a premier weapon-in-pursuit-of-the sublime for small-ish enterprises, including the professional services.)
The “Small Guys” Guide: Wallop Wal*Mart16 *Employer of choice. (A very cool, well-paid place to work/learning and growth experience in at least the short term … marked by notably progressive policies.) (THIS IS EMINENTLY DO-ABLE!!) *Sophisticated use of information technology. (Small-“ish” is no excuse for “small aims”/execution in IS/IT!) *Web-power! (The Web can make very small very big … if the product-service is super-cool and one purposefully masters buzz/viral marketing.) *Innovative! (Must keep renewing and expanding and revising and re-imagining “the promise” to employees, the customer, the community.)
