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Tom Peters’Re-Imagine!Business Excellence in a Disruptive AgeSiemens.LONGUnlocking Your Organization’s Potential Business Leadership Forum 2005 Berlin/20October
“The Ultimate Luxury Item Is Now Made in China”—Headline/p1/The New York Times/ 07.13.2004/Topic: Luxury Yachts made in Zhongshan
“Vaunted German Engineers Face Competition From China”—Headline, p1/WSJ/07.15.2004
“China’s Next Export:Innovation”—McKinsey Quarterly (Cover Story)
“ ‘MADE IN TAIWAN’: From Cheap Manufacturing to Chic Branding”—Headline/Advertising Age/06.05
BEATING HURDLES, SCIENTISTS CLONE A DOG FOR A FIRST: Feat for South Koreans”—Headline/p1/NYT/08.04.05
“There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.”—Carly Fiorina/HP/ 01.08.2004
“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)
“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”—Charles Darwin
“The most successful people are those who are good at plan B.”—James Yorke, mathematician, on chaos theory in The New Scientist
Nelson’s secret:“[Other] admirals more frightened of losing than anxious to win”
“In Tom’s world, it’s always better to try a swan dive and deliver a colossal belly flop than to step timidly off the board while holding your nose.”—Fast Company /October2003
Hardball: Are You Playing to Play or Playing to Win?by George Stalk & Rob Lachenauer/HBS Press“The winners in business have always played hardball.” “Unleash massive and overwhelming force.” “Exploit anomalies.” “Threaten your competitor’s profit sanctuaries.” “Entice your competitor into retreat.”Approximately 640 Index entries:Customer/s(service, retention, loyalty),4.People (employees, motivation, morale, worker/s),0. Innovation (product development, research & development, new products),0.
“One Singaporean workercosts as much as …3 … in Malaysia 8 … in Thailand 13 … in China 18 … in India.”Source: The Straits Times/08.18.03
“One Singaporean workercosts as much as …3 … in Malaysia8 … in Thailand 13 … in China 18 … in India.”Source: The Straits Times/08.18.03
“Thaksinomics” (after Thaksin Shinawatra, PM)/ “Bangkok Fashion City”:“managed asset reflation”(add to brand value of Thai textiles by demonstrating flair and design excellence)Source: The Straits Times/03.04.2004
“Income Confers No Immunity as Jobs Migrate”—Headline/USA Today/02.04
Agriculture Age (farmers)Industrial Age (factory workers)Information Age (knowledge workers)Conceptual Age (creators and empathizers)Source: Dan Pink, A Whole New Mind
“THE FUTURE BELONGS TO … SMALL POPULATIONS … WHO BUILD EMPIRES OF THE MIND … AND WHO IGNORE THE TEMPTATION OF—OR DO NOT HAVE THE OPTION OF—EXPLOITING NATURAL RESOURCES.”Source: Juan Enriquez/Asthe Future Catches You
U.S. Patent Office/Patents Granted19851998Venezuela 15 …………… 29Argentina 12 …………… 46Mexico 35 …………... 77Brazil 30 …………… 88South Korea 50 …… 3,362 Source: Juan Enriquez/Asthe Future Catches You
“From the United States to Europe and Japan, more patents were sought in the past 20 years than the previous 100, evidence that the idea of protecting an idea is itself growing in importance.‘Patents are becoming the highest-value assets in any economy,’said Jerry Sheehan, an economist with the OECD.”—International Herald Tribune/10.03.05/“THE IDEA ECONOMY: Who Owns What” (a series)
“UPS used to be a trucking company with technology.Now it’s a technology company with trucks.”—Forbes
“WE ARE BEGINNING TO ACQUIRE … DIRECT AND DELIBERATE CONTROL … OVER THE EVOLUTION OF ALL LIFE FORMS … ON THE PLANET.”Source: Juan Enriquez, As The Future Catches You
“Asia’s rise is the economic event of our age.Should it proceed as it has over the last few decades, it will bring the two centuries of global domination by Europe and, subsequently, its giant North American offshoot to an end.”—Financial Times
“This is a dangerous world and it is going to become more dangerous.”“We may not be interested in chaos but chaos is interested in us.”Source: Robert Cooper, The Breaking of Nations: Order and Chaos in the Twenty-first Century