The Reinvention Imperative: A Passion for Passion!

1. The Reinvention Imperative:A Passion for Passion!Tom Peters/Nu Skin/Monte Carlo/15June04

2. Purpose

3. Tell you about my biasesAcknowledge your extraordinary successRemind you of the obviousRenew your passionOffer a few suggestions about a couple of Giant OpportunitiesAsk you to frankly and brutally use this time to assess “What’s next?”

4. Tell you about my biasesAcknowledge your extraordinary successRemind you of the obviousRenew your passionOffer a few suggestions about a couple of Giant OpportunitiesAsk you to frankly and brutally use this time to assess “What’s next?” Do we bask in self-satisfaction or re-invent our corners of the world?

5. “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

6. Tell you about my biasesAcknowledge your extraordinary successRemind you of the obviousRenew your passionOffer a few suggestions about a couple of Giant OpportunitiesAsk you to frankly and brutally use this time to assess “What’s next?” Do we bask in self-satisfaction or re-invent our corners of the world?

7. Re-imagine!Do we bask in self-satisfaction or re-invent our corners of the world?T.I.B.*: In the end we are uniquely responsible for using our power and resources to leave the world a better place than when we arrived.*This I Believe

8. It is the foremost task—and responsibility—of our generation to re-imagine our enterprises, private and public.—from the back cover, Re-imagine!

9. “Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: ‘Who do we intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’”—Max De Pree, Herman Miller

10. Tell you about my biasesAcknowledge your extraordinary successRemind you of the obviousRenew your passionOffer a few suggestions about a couple of Giant OpportunitiesAsk you to frankly and brutally use this time to assess “What’s next?”

11. Tell you about my biasesAcknowledge your extraordinary successRemind you of the obviousRenew your passionOffer a few suggestions about a couple of Giant OpportunitiesAsk you to frankly and brutally use this time to assess “What’s next?”

12. Setting the Scene

13. “Uncertainty is the only thing to be sure of.”—Anthony Muh,head of investment in Asia, Citigroup Asset Management“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”—General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff, U. S. Army

14. A Bias for Action

15. The Kotler Doctrine:1965-1980: R.A.F.(Ready.Aim.Fire.)1980-1995: R.F.A.(Ready.Fire!Aim.)1995-????: F.F.F.(Fire!Fire!Fire!)

16. “You can’t behave in a calm, rational manner. You’ve got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.”— Jack Welch

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

18. Fail. Forward. Fast.

19. Sam’s Secret #1!

20. Fail. Forward. Fast.–High-tech Exec

21. “Rewardexcellentfailures. Punish mediocre successes.”Phil Daniels, Sydney exec (and, de facto, Jack)

22. I Don’t Know!

23. “Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to get things done.” – P.D.

24. “I don’t know.”

25. Quests!

26. 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.”

27. Doing Leadership

28. “It is no use saying ‘We are doing our best.’You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”—WSC

29. “ToDon’t”List

30. Best Talent Wins!

31. Age of AgricultureIndustrial AgeAge of Information IntensificationAge of Creation IntensificationSource: Murikami Teruyasu, Nomura Research Institute

32. “The leaders of Great Groups love talent and know where to find it. They revel in the talent of others.”Warren Bennis & Patricia Ward Biederman, Organizing Genius

33. The Cracked Ones Let in the Light“Our business needs a massive transfusion of talent, and talent, I believe, is most likely to be found among non-conformists, dissenters and rebels.”David Ogilvy

34. Women Rule!

35. “AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE: New Studies find that female managers outshine their male counterparts in almost every measure”Title, Special Report, BusinessWeek, 11.20.00

36. Women’s Strengths Match New Economy Imperatives: Link [rather than rank] workers; favor interactive-collaborative leadership style [empowerment beats top-down decision making]; sustain fruitful collaborations; comfortable with sharing information; see redistribution of power as victory, not surrender; favor multi-dimensional feedback; value technical & interpersonal skills, individual & group contributions equally; readily accept ambiguity; honor intuition as well as pure “rationality”; inherently flexible; appreciate cultural diversity.Source: Judy B. Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret: Women Managers

37. “TAKE THIS QUICK QUIZ: Who manages more things at once? Who puts more effort into their appearance? Who usually takes care of the details? Who finds it easier to meet new people? Who asks more questions in a conversation? Who is a better listener? Who has more interest in communication skills? Who is more inclined to get involved? Who encourages harmony and agreement? Who has better intuition? Who works with a longer ‘to do’ list? Who enjoys a recap to the day’s events? Who is better at keeping in touch with others?”Source: Selling Is a Woman’s Game: 15 Powerful Reasons Why Women Can Outsell Men, Nicki Joy & Susan Kane-Benson

38. “Investors are looking more and more for a relationship with their financial advisers. They want someone they can trust, someone who listens. In my experience, in general, women may be better at these relationship-building skills than are men.”Hardwick Simmons, CEO, Prudential Securities

39. Opportunity! U.S.G.B.E.U.Ja. M.Mgt. 41% 29% 18% 6% T.Mgt. 4% 3% 2% <1% Peak Partic. Age 45 22 27 19 % Coll. Stud. 52% 50% 48% 26% Source: Judy Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret

40. Brand You: Distinct or Extinct!

41. “Income Confers No Immunity as Jobs Migrate”—Headline/USA Today/02.04

42. “There is no job that is America’s God-given right anymore.”—Carly Fiorina/ HP/ 01.08.2004

43. “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

44. “If there is nothing very special about your work,no matter how hard you apply yourself, you won’t get noticed, and that increasingly means you won’t get paid much either.”Michael Goldhaber, Wired

45. AssignmentConstruct a 1/8-page or 1/4-page ad for Brand You … for theYellow Pages

46. The Rule of Positioning“If you can’t describe your position in eight words or less, you don’t have a position.”— Jay Levinson and Seth GodinGet What You Deserve!

47. “You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend or not.”—Isabel Allende

48. The greatest dangerfor most of usis not that our aim istoo highand we miss it,but that it istoo lowand we reach it.Michelangelo

49. Educate for a Creative Society!

50. “My wife and I went to a [kindergarten] parent-teacher conference and were informed that our budding refrigerator artist, Christopher, would be receiving a grade of Unsatisfactory in art. We were shocked. How could any child—let alone our child—receive a poor grade in art at such a young age?His teacher informed us that he had refused to color within the lines, which was a state requirement for demonstrating ‘grade-level motor skills.’ ”Jordan Ayan, AHA!