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Tom Peters’ EXCELLENCE. ALWAYS. Leadership. 21 April 2009

Tom Peters’ EXCELLENCE. ALWAYS. Leadership. 21 April 2009. NOTE : To appreciate this presentation [and ensure that it is not a mess ], you need Microsoft fonts: “Showcard Gothic,” “Ravie,” “Chiller” and “Verdana”. Slides at … tompeters.com. Excellence: The Leadership 50. bedrock.

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Tom Peters’ EXCELLENCE. ALWAYS. Leadership. 21 April 2009

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  1. Tom Peters’ EXCELLENCE. ALWAYS.Leadership.21 April 2009

  2. NOTE:To appreciate this presentation [and ensure that it is not a mess], you need Microsoft fonts:“Showcard Gothic,”“Ravie,”“Chiller”and“Verdana”

  3. Slides at …tompeters.com

  4. Excellence:The Leadership50

  5. bedrock.

  6. 1. Leaders …serve.

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

  8. The Basic Mechanism.

  9. 2. Leadership Is a …Mutual Discovery Process.

  10. “Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to get things done.”– Peter Drucker

  11. 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.”

  12. Leaders’ “Mt Everest Test”“free to do his or her absolute best” … “allow its members to discover their greatness.”

  13. The Leadership Types.

  14. 3.Great Leaders on White Horses Are Important – butGreat Talent Developers(Type I Leadership)are the Bedrock of Organizations that Perform Over the Long Haul.

  15. Whoops: Jack didn’t have a vision!

  16. 4. But There Are Times When the “visionary” “Type” (Type II Leadership) Matters!

  17. “A leader is a dealer in hope.” —Napoleon

  18. 5. Find the “Businesspeople”!(Type III Leadership)

  19. I.P.M. (Inspired Profit Mechanic)

  20. 6. All Organizations Need … the Golden Leadership Triangle.

  21. The Golden Leadership Triangle:(1) Talent Fanatic … (2) Visionary … (3) Inspired Profit Mechanic.

  22. 7. Leadership Mantra #1: IT ALL DEPENDS!

  23. Renaissance Men are … a snare, a myth, a delusion!

  24. 8.The Leader Is Rarely/Never the Best Performer.

  25. The Leadership Dance.

  26. 9. Leaders …SHOWUP!

  27. “A body can pretend to care, but they can’t pretend to be there.”— Texas Bix Bender

  28. “It’s always showtime.”—David D’Alessandro, Career Warfare

  29. 10.Leaders …LOVE the MESS!

  30. “If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”—Mario Andretti

  31. 11. LeadersDO!

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

  33. 12. Leaders Re-do.

  34. Phil Crosby is an idiot!

  35. “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

  36. 13.BUT … Leaders KnowWhen to Wait.

  37. Tex Schramm: The “too hard” box!

  38. 14. Leaders Are … Optimists.

  39. Hackneyed but none the less true:LEADERS SEE CUPS AS “HALF FULL.”

  40. Half-full Cups:“[Ronald Reagan] radiated an almost transcendent happiness.” —L ou Cannon

  41. 15.LeadersFOCUS!

  42. “Dennis, you need a … ‘To-don’t ’ List !”

  43. “I used to have a rule for myself that at any point in time I wanted to have in mind — as it so happens, also in writing, on a little card I carried around with me — the three big things I was trying to get done. Three.Not two. Not four. Not five.Not ten.Three.”— Richard Haass, The Power to Persuade

  44. 16.Leaders … Send V-E-R-YClearSignals About What’s Important!

  45. “Really Important Stuff”:Roger’s Rule of Three!

  46. Danger: S.I.O. (Strategic Initiative Overload)

  47. If It Ain’t Broke … Break It.

  48. 17.Leaders …FORGET!/Leaders …DESTROY!

  49. 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

  50. “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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