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If Not Excellence, What? If Not Excellence Now, When? The “19 Es” of Excellence

If Not Excellence, What? If Not Excellence Now, When? The “19 Es” of Excellence Enthusiasm . (Be an irresistible force of nature!) Ener gy. (Be fire! Light fires!) Exuberance . (Vibrate—cause earthquakes!)

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If Not Excellence, What? If Not Excellence Now, When? The “19 Es” of Excellence

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  1. If Not Excellence, What? If Not Excellence Now, When? The “19 Es” of Excellence Enthusiasm.(Be an irresistible force of nature!) Energy.(Be fire! Light fires!) Exuberance.(Vibrate—cause earthquakes!) Execution.(Do it! Now! Get it done! Barriers are baloney! Excuses are for wimps! Accountability is gospel! Adhere to the Bill Parcells doctrine: “Blame nobody! Expect nothing! Do something!”) Empowerment.(Respect and appreciation! Always ask, “What do you think?” Then: Listen! Liberate! Celebrate! 100% innovators or bust!) Edginess.(Perpetually dancing at the frontier, and a little or a lot beyond.) Enraged.(Determined to challenge & change the status quo!) Engaged.(Addicted to MBWA/Managing By Wandering Around. In touch. Always.) Electronic.(Partners with the world 60/60/24/7 via electronic community building and entanglement of every sort. Crowdsourcing/doing power!) Encompassing.(Relentlessly pursue diverse opinions—the more diversity the merrier! Diversity per se “works”!) Emotion.(The alpha. The omega. The essence of leadership. The essence of sales. The essence of marketing. The essence. Period. Acknowledge it.) Empathy.(Connect, connect, connect with others’ reality and aspirations! “Walk in the other person’s shoes”—until the soles have holes!) Experience.(Life is theater! Make every activity-contact memorable! Standard: “Insanely Great”/Steve Jobs; “Radically Thrilling”/BMW.) Eliminate.(Keep it simple!) Errorprone.(Ready! Fire! Aim! Try a lot of stuff and make a lot of booboos and then try some more stuff and make some more booboos—all of it at the speed of light!) Evenhanded.(Straight as an arrow! Fair to a fault! Honest as Abe!) Expectations.(Michelangelo: “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” Amen!) Eudaimonia.(Pursue the highest of human moral purpose—the core of Aristotle’s philosophy. Be of service. Always.) Excellence.(The only standard! Never an exception! Start now! No excuses! If not Excellence, what? If not Excellence now, when?)

  2. Tom Peters’ Excellence. Always. Results Group/Auckland/19.02.09

  3. 1982

  4. Excellence1982: The Bedrock “Eight Basics” 1. A Bias for Action 2. Close to the Customer 3. Autonomy and Entrepreneurship 4. Productivity Through People 5. Hands On, Value-Driven 6. Stick to the Knitting 7. Simple Form, Lean Staff 8. Simultaneous Loose-Tight Properties”

  5. “Breakthrough” 82* People! Customers! Action! Values! *In Search of Excellence

  6. 2007

  7. Why in the World did you go to Siberia?

  8. Enterprise* ** (*at its best):An emotional, vital, innovative, joyful, creative, entrepreneurial endeavor that elicits maximum concerted human potential in the wholeheartedservice of others.****Employees, Customers, Suppliers, Communities, Owners, Temporary partners

  9. 2007

  10. Organizations exist to serve. Period. Leaders live to serve. Period.

  11. … no less than Cathedralsin which the full and awesome power of the Imagination and Spirit and native Entrepreneurial flairof diverse individualsis unleashed in passionate pursuit of … Excellence.

  12. “The role of the Director is to create a space where the actors and actresses canbecome more than they’ve ever been before, more than they’ve dreamed of being.”—Robert Altman, Oscar acceptance speech

  13. “Leaders‘SERVE’ people. Period.”—inspired by Robert Greenleaf

  14. “Business has to give people enriching, rewarding lives, or it's simply not worth doing.”—Richard Branson

  15. “Too Much Cost, Not Enough Value” … “Too Much Speculation, Not Enough Investment” … “Too Much Complexity, Not Enough Simplicity” … “Too Much Counting, Not Enough Trust” … “Too Much Business Conduct, Not Enough Professional Conduct” … “Too Much Salesmanship, Not Enough Stewardship” … “Too Much Focus on Things, Not Enough Focus on Commitment” … “Too Many Twenty-first Century Values, Not Enough Eighteenth-Century Values” … “Too Much ‘Success,’ Not Enough Character” —chapter titles from John Bogle, Enough. The Measures of Money, Business, and Life (Bogle is founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group)

  16. “Managers have lost dignity over the past decade in the face of wide spread institutional breakdown of trust and self-policing in business. To regain society’s trust, we believe that business leaders must embrace a way of looking at their role that goes beyond their responsibility to the shareholders to include a civic and personal commitment to their duty as institutional custodians. In other words, it is time hat management became a profession.”—Rakesh Khurana & Niin Nohria, “I’s ime To Make Management a True Profession,” HBR/10.08

  17. The 19 Es of Excellence

  18. If Not Excellence, What? If Not Excellence Now, When? The “19 Es” of Excellence Enthusiasm.(Be an irresistible force of nature!) Energy.(Be fire! Light fires!) Exuberance.(Vibrate—cause earthquakes!) Execution.(Do it! Now! Get it done! Barriers are baloney! Excuses are for wimps! Accountability is gospel! Adhere to the Bill Parcells doctrine: “Blame nobody! Expect nothing! Do something!”) Empowerment.(Respect and appreciation! Always ask, “What do you think?” Then: Listen! Liberate! Celebrate! 100% innovators or bust!) Edginess.(Perpetually dancing at the frontier, and a little or a lot beyond.) Enraged.(Determined to challenge & change the status quo!) Engaged.(Addicted to MBWA/Managing By Wandering Around. In touch. Always.) Electronic.(Partners with the world 60/60/24/7 via electronic community building and entanglement of every sort. Crowdsourcing/doing power!) Encompassing.(Relentlessly pursue diverse opinions—the more diversity the merrier! Diversity per se “works”!) Emotion.(The alpha. The omega. The essence of leadership. The essence of sales. The essence of marketing. The essence. Period. Acknowledge it.) Empathy.(Connect, connect, connect with others’ reality and aspirations! “Walk in the other person’s shoes”—until the soles have holes!) Experience.(Life is theater! Make every activity-contact memorable! Standard: “Insanely Great”/Steve Jobs; “Radically Thrilling”/BMW.) Eliminate.(Keep it simple!) Errorprone.(Ready! Fire! Aim! Try a lot of stuff and make a lot of booboos and then try some more stuff and make some more booboos—all of it at the speed of light!) Evenhanded.(Straight as an arrow! Fair to a fault! Honest as Abe!) Expectations.(Michelangelo: “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.” Amen!) Eudaimonia.(Pursue the highest of human moral purpose—the core of Aristotle’s philosophy. Be of service. Always.) Excellence.(The only standard! Never an exception! Start now! No excuses! If not Excellence, what? If not Excellence now, when?)

  19. “Mr. Watson, how long does it take to achieve Excellence?”

  20. “1minute”

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