Women Rule: The Power of Female Leadership in Business

1. LONGTom Peters’ X25*EXCELLENCE. ALWAYS.25th Annual Inc. 500 ConferenceWorld’s #1 City/20 January 2007*In Search of Excellence 1982-2007

2. Happy 25!1982-2007Inc.In Search of Excellence

3. Built to LastvsBuilt to Rock the World

4. TP#1*:Netscape!*Where would you rather have worked for those 5 years, Netscape or IBM-HP-Microsoft-Oracle? (Where, 25 years from now, would you rather to be able to tell someone—e.g., grandchild—that you worked?)

5. Slides* at …tompeters.com*also “long”

6. Inc. Home Page: Errata

7. “Women in Business”

8. “Men in Business”

9. “Forget China, India and the Internet: Economic Growth Is Driven by Women.”—Headline, Economist, April 15, 2006, Leader, page 14

10. A DOZEN UNASSAILABLE REASONS WOMEN RULE/WILL RULE Women make [all] the financial decisions. Women make better financial decisions.Women control [all] the [world’s] wealth. Women [substantially] outlive men. Women [girls] are waxing; men [boys] are waning. Women start most of the new businesses. Women’s work force participation rates have soared worldwide. Women are closing in on “same pay for same job.” Women are penetrating senior ranks rapidly [even if the pace is slow for the corner office per se]. Women’s leadership strengths are [exceptionally] well aligned with new organizational effectiveness & value-added imperatives. Women are [much] better salespersons than men. Women buy [almost] everything—commercial as well as consumer goods. Sowhatexactlyis … thepointofmen?

11. “Goldman Sachs in Tokyo has developed an index of 115 companies poised to benefit from women’s increased purchasing power;over the past decade the value of shares in Goldman’s basket has risen by 96%, against the Tokyo stockmarket’s rise of 13%.”—Economist, April 15

12. EXCELLENCE. ALL YOU NEED TO KNOW.

13. 7X. 730A-800P. F12A.**Not to mention the “Red key”

14. EXCELLENCE. ALL. YOU. NEED. TO. KNOW.ANYWHERE.ANY MARKET.ANY TIME.

15. Jim’s Group

16. Jim’s Mowing Canada Jim’s Mowing UK Jim’s Antennas Jim’s Bookkeeping Jim’s Building Maintenance Jim’s Carpet Cleaning Jim’s Car Cleaning Jim’s Computer Services Jim’s Dog Wash Jim’s Driving School Jim’s Fencing Jim’s Floors Jim’s Painting Jim’s Paving Jim’s Pergolas Jim’s Pool Care Jim’s Pressure Cleaning Jim’s Roofing Jim’s Security Doors Jim’s Trees Jim’s Window Cleaning Jim’s Windscreens Note: Download, free, Jim’s book: What Will They Franchise Next? The Story of Jim’s Group

17. EXCELLENCE. THE WORD.

18. SynonymsPurityTranscendenceVirtueEleganceMajestyAntonymsMediocritySynonymsPurityTranscendenceVirtueEleganceMajestyAntonymsMediocrity

19. EXCELLENCE. STARTERS.BASICS.K.I.S.S.

20. 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”

21. “It was a blinding flash of the obvious!”

22. EXCELLENCE. ASPIRATION.

23. “Why in the world did you go to Siberia?”

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

25. EXCELLENCE. INNOVATE. OR. DIE.

26. “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

27. “I don’t believe in economies of scale.You don’t get better by being bigger. You get worse.”—Dick Kovacevich/Wells Fargo

28. The last word: There is no last word.

29. Flat as a Pancake (Or Worse)Wal*Mart … Dell … Intel … Home Depot … Microsoft … GE

30. InnoTac64

31. try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Screw it up. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Screw it up. it. Try it. Try it. try it. Try it.Screw it up. Try it. Try it. Try it.

32. do things.

33. “We have a ‘strategic plan.’ It’s called doing things.”— Herb Kelleher

34. drill.

35. “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.” Source: The Hunters, by John Masters, Canadian O & G wildcatter

36. try things.

37. “We made mistakes, of course. Most of them were omissions we didn’t think of when we initially wrote the software. We fixed them by doing it over and over, again and again. We do the same today. While our competitors are still sucking their thumbs trying to make the design perfect, we’re already on prototype version#5.By the time our rivals are ready with wires and screws, we are on version #10.It gets back to planning versus acting: We act from day one; others plan how toplan—for months.”—Bloomberg by Bloomberg

38. Screw. things.Up.

39. “FAIL, FAIL AGAIN. FAIL BETTER.”—Samuel Beckett

40. “Fail . Forward. Fast.”High Tech CEO, Pennsylvania

41. Sam’s Secret #1!

42. “Rewardexcellent failures. Punishmediocre successes.”Phil Daniels, Sydney exec

43. try.Miss.try.

44. READY.FIRE!AIM.Ross Perot (vs “Aim! Aim! Aim!”/EDS vs GM/1985)

45. just.%&*%$#@.Do it.

46. S.A.V.

47. duh.

48. “You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”—WayneGretzky

49. EXCELLENCE. 4/40.

50. 4/40