tom peters’ re-imagine! business excellence in a disruptive age birmingham/23april2004
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Tom Peters’
Re-Imagine!Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age
Birmingham/23April2004
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Slides at …
tompeters.com
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I. NEW BUSINESS.
NEW CONTEXT.
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“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
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1. All Bets Are Off.
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Jobs Technology
GlobalizationSecurity
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Jobs New Technology
GlobalizationSecurity
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“14 MILLION service jobs are in
danger of being shipped overseas” —
The Dobbs Report/USN&WR/11.03/re new UCB
study
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“There is no job that is America’s God-given right
anymore.” —Carly Fiorina/ HP/
01.08.2004
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“Income Confers No Immunity as Jobs Migrate” —Headline/USA Today/02.04
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“WHAT ARE PEOPLE GOING TO DO WITH
THEMSELVES?” —Headline/
Fortune/ 11.03 (“We should finally admit that we do not and cannot know, and regard that fact with serenity
rather than anxiety.”)
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“One Singaporean worker costs as much as …
3 … in Malaysia 8 … in Thailand 13 … in China 18 … in India.”
Source: The Straits Times/08.18.03
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“Thaksinomics” (after Taksin 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
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Jobs Technology
GlobalizationSecurity
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<1000A.D.: paradigm shift: 1000s of years1000: 100 years for paradigm shift
1800s: > prior 900 years1900s: 1st 20 years > 1800s
2000: 10 years for paradigm shift
21st century: 1000X tech
change than 20th century (“the ‘Singularity,’ a merger between humans and computers that is so rapid and profound it
represents a rupture in the fabric of human history”)
Ray Kurzweil
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“A California biotechnology company has put the entire
sequence of the human genome on a single chip, allowing
researchers to conduct a single experiment on the complex
relationships between the 30,000 genes that make up a human being.” —Page 3, Financial Times/10.03.2003
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Jobs Technology
Globalization Security
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“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 (09.22.2003)
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“The world has arrived at a rare strategic inflection point where
nearly half its population—living in China, India and Russia—have been
integrated into the global market economy, many of them highly educated workers, who can do just about any job in the world. We’re talking about three billion people.” —Craig Barrett/Intel/01.08.2004
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China Roars!
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1990-2003: Exports 8X ($380B); 6% global exports 2003 vs. 3.9% 2000; 16% of
Total Global Growth in 2002.
Source: “China Takes Off”, David Hale & Lyric Hughes Hale/Foreign Affairs/Nov-Dec2003
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1998-2003: 45,000,000 layoffs in state sector; offset by $450B in
foreign investment; foreign companies account for 50+% of exports vs. 31% in Mexico,
15% in Korea.
Source: “China Takes Off”, David Hale & Lyric Hughes Hale/Foreign Affairs/Nov-Dec2003
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200 cities with >1,000,000 population.
Source: “China Takes Off,” David Hale & Lyric Hughes Hale/Foreign Affairs/Nov-Dec2003
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2003: China-Hong Kong leading producer in 8 of 12 key consumer electronic product areas (>50%: DVDs, digital cameras; >33.33%:
DVD-ROM drives, personal desktop and notebook computers; >25% mobile phones, color TVs,
PDAs, car stereos).Source: “China Takes Off,” David Hale & Lyric Hughes
Hale/Foreign Affairs/Nov-Dec2003
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“Going Global: Flush with billions in foreign reserves,
China is embarking on a buying spree” —Cover/ Newsweek/ 03.01.04/ on
China’s aggressive offshore acquisition activity (buying brands,
technology, etc.)
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World economic output: U.S.A., 21%; EU, 16%; China, 13%
(2X since1991)
Source: New York Times/12.14.2003
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Indian GDP/1990-2002: Ag, 34% to 21%; services,
40% to 56%
Source: The Economist/02.04
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Level 5 (top) ranking/Carnegie Mellon
Software Engineering Institute: 35 of 70
companies in world are from India
Source: Wired/02.04
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“Forget India, Let’s Go to Bulgaria” —Headline,
BW/03.04, re SAP, BMW, Siemens et al. “near-shoring”
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Jobs Technology
Globalization
Security
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“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
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“The world’s new dimension (computers, Internet, globalization,
instantaneous communication, widely available instruments of mass
destruction and so on) amounts to a new metaphysics that, by empowering
individual zealots or agitated tribes with unappeasable grievances, makes the world unstable and dangerous in
radically new ways.” —Lance Morrow/Evil
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All Bets Are Off!
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“There will be more
confusion in the business world in the next decade than in any decade in history. And the current pace of
change will only accelerate.”Steve Case
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“We are in a
brawl with no rules.”
Paul Allaire
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S.A.V.
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“Strategy meetings held once
or twice a year” to “Strategy meetings needed several
times a week”
Source: New York Times on Meg Whitman/eBay
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“How we feel about the evolving future tells us who we are as individuals and as a civilization: Do we search for stasis—a regulated, engineered world? Or do we embrace dynamism—a world of constant creation,
discovery and competition? Do we value stability and control? Or evolution and learning? Do we think that progress requires a central blueprint? Or do we see it as a decentralized, evolutionary process? Do we see mistakes as permanent disasters? Or the correctable
byproducts of experimentation? Do we crave predictability? Or relish surprise? These two poles,
stasis and dynamism, increasingly define our political, intellectual and cultural landscape.” —Virginia Postrel,
The Future and Its Enemies
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Successful Businesses’ Dozen Truths: TP’s 30-Year Perspective
1. Insanely Great & Quirky Talent.2. Disrespect for Tradition.3. Totally Passionate (to the Point of Irrationality) Belief in What We Are Here to Do.4. Utter Disbelief at the Bullshit that Marks “Normal Industry Behavior.”5. A Maniacal Bias for Execution … and Utter Contempt for Those Who Don’t “Get It.”6. Speed Demons.7. Up or Out. (Meritocracy Is Thy Name. Sycophancy Is Thy Scourge.)8. Passionate Hatred of Bureaucracy.9. Willingness to Lead the Customer … and Take the Heat Associated Therewith. (Mantra: Satan Invented Focus Groups to Derail True Believers.)10. “Reward Excellent Failures. Punish Mediocre Successes.” 11. Courage to Stand Alone on One’s Record of Accomplishment Against All the Forces of Conventional Wisdom.12. A Crystal Clear Understanding of Brand Power.
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It is the foremost task—and responsibility—of our generation to
re-imagine our enterprises, private
and public. —from the Foreword, Re-imagine
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“Let’s compete—by training the best workers, investing in R & D,
erecting the best infrastructure and building an education system that graduates students who rank with the worlds best. Our goal is to be competitive with the best so we
both win and create jobs.” —Craig Barrett (Time/03.01.04)
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“In a global economy, the government cannot give
anybody a guaranteed success story, but you can give people the tools to make the most of
their own lives.” —WJC, from Philip Bobbitt,
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History
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Age of AgricultureIndustrial Age
Age of Information IntensificationAge of Creation Intensification
Source: Murikami Teruyasu, Nomura Research Institute
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The Winning Edge: Peters’ Big6
1. Research-Innovation2. Entrepreneurial Attitude & Support (Especially from Capital Markets)
3. Creative (“Obstreperous”) Education4. Free Trade-Open Markets5. Individual Self-reliance (& Supports Therefore)
6. Cutting-edge Infrastructure
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2. The Destruction Imperative.
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Forbes100 from 1917 to 1987: 39 members of the Class of ’17 were alive
in ’87; 18 in ’87 F100; 18 F100 “survivors” underperformed the market
by 20%; just 2 (2%), GE & Kodak, outperformed the market 1917 to 1987.
S&P 500 from 1957 to 1997: 74 members of the Class of ’57 were
alive in ’97; 12 (2.4%) of 500 outperformed the market from 1957 to 1997.
Source: Dick Foster & Sarah Kaplan, Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market
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“Good management was the most powerful reason [leading firms] failed to stay atop their industries. Precisely because these firms
listened to their customers, invested aggressively in technologies that would provide their customers more
and better products of the sort they wanted, and because they carefully studied market trends and
systematically allocated investment capital to innovations that promised the best returns, they lost
their positions of leadership.”
Clayton Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma
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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
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“Conglomerates don’t work.” —James
Surowiecki, The New Yorker (07.01.2002)
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“MERGERS: Why Most Big Deals Don’t Pay Off. A
BusinessWeek analysis
shows that 61% of buyers destroyed shareholder wealth.” —BusinessWeek/10.14.2002
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“When asked to name just one big merger that had lived up to expectations, Leon
Cooperman, former cochairman of Goldman Sachs’ Investment Policy
Committee, answered: I’m sure there are success stories
out there, but at this moment I draw a blank.”
Mark Sirower, The Synergy Trap
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“Acquisitions are about buying market share.
Our challenge is to create markets. There is a big difference.”
Peter Job, CEO, Reuters
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Market Share, Anyone?
— 240 industries; market-share leader is ROA leader 29% of the time — Profit / ROA leaders: “aggressively weed out customers who generate low returns”
Source: Donald V. Potter, Wall Street Journal
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“The $58B hostile bid by Sanofi-Synthelabo for Aventis has been greeted skeptically, as has the news that Novartis may counterbid. Few
investors believe that Big Pharma can compensate for a deficit of new drugs by
getting bigger. Some suspect the converse is true: that size has made them sluggish. … That has led to some thinking the unthinkable: that pharmaceutical companies should leave drug
discovery to biotech companies and focus their efforts on development and marketing.”
—Financial Times/03.2004
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Winning the Merger Game Is Possible
--Lots of deals--Little deals
--Friendly deals--Stay close to core competence--Strategy is easy to understand
Source: “The Mega-merger Mouse Trap”/Wall Street Journal/02.17.2004/David Harding & Sam Rovit, Bain & Co./re
Comcast-Disney
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No Wiggle Room!
“Incrementalism is innovation’s worst enemy.”
Nicholas Negroponte
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“Perfection is achieved only by institutions on the point of
collapse.”— C. Northcote Parkinson
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Just Say No …
“I don’t intend to be known as the ‘King of
the Tinkerers.’ ”CEO, large financial services company
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“Beware of the tyranny of making Small Changes
to Small Things. Rather, make Big Changes to Big Things.” —Roger Enrico, former Chairman,
PepsiCo
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2A.
The Case for …
Technicolor!
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Jim & Tom. Joined at the
hip. Not.
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Huh?
“Humility: The Surprise Factor in Leadership … bosses with Gung-
ho Qualities and Charisma May Be Out of Fashion” —Headline/FT/
re JCollins/10.03
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“intrepid, unprincipled, reckless, predatory, with
boundless ambition, civilized in externals but
a savage at heart.”
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Herman Melville on JPJ: “intrepid, unprincipled,
reckless, predatory, with boundless ambition,
civilized in externals but a savage at heart.” —from Evan
Thomas, John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy
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I. Good to GreatII. Built to LastIII. Quiet, Humble Leaders
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I. Good to GreatII. Built to LastIII. Quiet, Humble Leaders
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Good to Great: Fannie Mae … Kroger … Walgreens … Philip
Morris … Pitney Bowes … Abbott … Kimberly-Clark … Wells Fargo
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Great Companies … SET THE AGENDA.
(Period.)
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AGENDA SETTERS: “Set the Table”/ Pioneers/ Questors/ Adventurers
US Steel … Ford … Macy’s … Sears … Litton Industries … ITT … The Gap … Limited … Wal*Mart … P&G … 3M …
Intel … IBM … Apple … Nokia … Cisco … Dell … MCI … Sun … Oracle …
Microsoft … Enron … Schwab … GE … Southwest … Laker …People Express
… Ogilvy … Chiat/Day … Virgin … eBay … Amazon … Sony … BMW … CNN …
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I. Good to GreatII. Built to LastIII. Quiet, Humble Leaders
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Built to Last v. Built to Flip
“The problem with Built to Last is that it’s a romantic notion. Large companies are
incapable of ongoing innovation, of ongoing flexibility.”
“Increasingly, successful businesses will be ephemeral. They will be built to yield
something of value – and once that value has been exhausted, they will vanish.”
Fast Company
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“The difficulties … arise from the inherent conflict between the need to control existing operations and the need to create the kind of environment that will permit new ideas to flourish—and old ones to die a
timely death. … We believe that most corporations will find it impossible to
match or outperform the market without abandoning the assumption of continuity. … The current apocalypse—the transition from a state of continuity to state of discontinuity—has the same suddenness [as the trauma that beset civilization in
1000 A.D.]”
Richard Foster & Sarah Kaplan, “Creative Destruction” (The McKinsey Quarterly)
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I. Good to GreatII. Built to LastIII. Quiet, Humble Leaders
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Huh?
“Quiet, workmanlike, stoic leaders bring about the big
transformations.”--JC
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WellingtonNelsonDisraeliChurchill
MontgomeryThatcher
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“Humble” Pastels?
T. Paine/P. Henry/A. Hamilton/T. Jefferson/B. FranklinA. Lincoln/U.S. Grant/W.T. Sherman
TR/FDR/LBJ/RR/JFKPatton/Monty/Halsey
M.L. King/C. de Gaulle/M. Gandhi/W. ChurchillPicasso/Mozart/Copernicus/Newton/Einstein/Djarassi/Watson
H. Clinton/G. Steinem/I. Gandhi/G. Meir/M. Thatcher E. Shockley/A. Grove/J. Welch/L. Gerstner/L. Ellison/B. Gates/
S. Jobs/S. McNealy/T. Turner/R. Murdoch/W. Wriston A. Carnegie/J.P. Morgan/H. Ford/S. Honda/J.D. Rockefeller/
T.A. Edison Rummy/Norm/Henry/Wolfie
Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Susan B. Anthony/Martha Cary Thomas/Carrie Chapman Catt/Alice Paul/Anna Elizabeth
Dickinson/Arabella Babb Mansfield/Margaret Sanger
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Audie Murphy was the most decorated soldier in WW2.
He won every medal we had to offer, plus 5 presented by Belgium and France. There was one common medal he
never won …
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… the Good Conduct medal.
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“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
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The Re-imagineer’s Credo … or, Pity the Poor Brown*
Technicolor Times demand …Technicolor Leaders and Boards who recruit …
Technicolor People who are sent on …Technicolor Quests to execute …
Technicolor (WOW!) Projects in partnership with …Technicolor Customers and …
Technicolor Suppliers all of whom are in pursuit of …Technicolor Goals and Aspirations fit for …
Technicolor Times.
*WSC
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“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror,
murder, bloodshed—and produced Michelangelo, da Vinci and the
Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of
democracy and peace, and what did they produce—the cuckoo clock.”
Orson Welles, as Harry Lime, in The Third Man
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II. NEW BUSINESS. NEW TECH.
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3. IS/ IT/ Web:“On the Bus” or “Off the Bus.”
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100 square feet
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“Our entire facility is digital. No paper, no film, no medical records. Nothing. And it’s all integrated—from the lab to X-ray to records to physician order entry. Patients don’t have to wait for anything. The information from the physician’s office is
in registration and vice versa. The referring physician is immediately sent an email telling him his patient has shown up. … It’s wireless in-house. We have 800 notebook computers that are wireless. Physicians can walk around with a computer that’s
pre-programmed. If the physician wants, we’ll go out and wire their house so they can sit on the couch and connect to the
network. They can review a chart from 100 miles away.” —David Veillette, CEO, Indiana Heart Hospital (HealthLeaders/12.2002)
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“MIT Everywhere: EVERY LECTURE, EVERY QUIZ, ALL
ONLINE, FOR FREE. MEET THE GLOBAL GEEKS GETTING AN MIT
EDUCATION, OPEN SOURCE-STYLE.” —Headline/Wired/09.03
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“Dawn Meyerreicks, CTO of the Defense Information Systems Agency, made one of the most fateful military calls of the 21st century. After 9/11 … her office
quickly leased all the available transponders covering Central Asia. The implications should change everything about U.S. military thinking in the
years ahead.
“The U.S. Air Force had kicked off its fight against the Taliban with an ineffective bombing campaign, and Washington was anguishing over whether to send in a few Army divisions. Donald Rumsfeld told Gen. Tommy Franks to
give the initiative to 250 Special Forces already on the ground. They used satellite phones, Predator surveillance drones, and GPS- and laser-based
targeting systems to make the air strikes brutally effective.
“In effect, they ‘Napsterized’ the battlefield by cutting out the middlemen (much of the military’s command and control) and working directly with the
real players. … The data came in so fast that HQ revised operating procedures to allow intelligence analysts and attack planners to work directly
together. Their favorite tool, incidentally, was instant messaging over a secure network.”—Ned Desmond/“Broadband’s New Killer App”/Business
2.0/ OCT2002
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“The mechanical speed of combat vehicles has not
increased since Rommel’s day, so the difference is all in the
operational speed, faster communications and faster
decisions.” —Edward Luttwak, on the unprecedented pace of the move toward Baghdad
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e-piphany
epicurious.com
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“Ebusiness is about rebuilding the organization from the
ground up. Most companies today are not built to exploit the Internet.
Their business processes, their approvals, their hierarchies, the
number of people they employ … all of that is wrong for running an
ebusiness.”
Ray Lane, Kleiner Perkins
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IS/IT is strategy!
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5% F500 have CIO on Board: “While some of the world’s most admired companies—
Tesco, Wal*Mart—are transforming the business landscape by including
technology experts on their boards, the vast majority are missing out on ways to boost productivity, competitiveness and
shareholder value.”
Source: Burson-Marsteller
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4. The White Collar
Revolution.
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Steel: 75,000,000 tons in ’82 to 102,000,000 tons in ’02. 289,000 steelworkers
in ’82 to 74,000 steelworkers in ’02.
Source: Fortune/11.24.03
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E.g. …
Jeff Immelt: 75% of “admin, back room, finance” “digitalized” in
3 years.
Source: BW (01.28.02)
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“A bureaucrat is an expensive
microchip.”Dan Sullivan, consultant and
executive coach
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“Organizations will still be critically important in the world,
but as ‘organizers,’ not ‘employers’!” — Charles Handy
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“Don’t own nothin’ if you can help it. If you can, rent your
shoes.”F.G.
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Ford: “Vehicle brand owner” (“design, engineer, and
market, but not actually make”)
Source: The Company, John Micklethwait & Adrian Wooldridge
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III. NEW BUSINESS. NEW
VALUE PROPOSITION.
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5. The “PSF Solution”:
The Professional Service Firm Model.
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Sarah: “ Daddy, what do you do?”
Daddy: “I’m a ‘cost center.’ ”
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So what will be the Basic Building
Block of the New Org?
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Every job done in W.C.W. is
also done “outside”
…for profit!
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Answer: PSF![Professional Service Firm]
Department Head
to …
Managing Partner, HR [IS, etc.] Inc.
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TP to HRMAC: You are the …
Rock Stars of the Age of
Talent!
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DD$21M
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6. The Heart of the Value
Added Revolution: PSFs Unbound/ The
“Solutions Imperative.”
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Base Case: The Sameness Trap
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“While everything may
be better, it is also increasingly the same.”
Paul Goldberger on retail, “The Sameness of Things,” The New York Times
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“Customers will try ‘low cost
providers’ … because the Majors have not
given them any clear reason not to.”
Leading Insurance Industry Analyst
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“When we did it ‘right’ it was still pretty ordinary.”
Barry Gibbons on “Nightmare No. 1”
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Fight ’til Death!
“I thought, ‘What a dreadful mission I have in life.’ I’d love to get six-thousand restaurants up to
spec, but when I do it’s ‘Ho-hum.’ It’s bugged me ever since. It’s one of the great paradoxes of
modern business. We all know distinction is key, and yet in the last twenty years we have created a plethora of ho-hum products and services. Just
go fly in an airplane. It could be such an enlightening experience. Ho-hum. We swim in an
ocean of ho-hum, and I’m going to fight it. I’m going to die fighting it.”
— Barry Gibbons
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“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of
similar companies, employing
similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, coming up
with similar ideas, producing
similar things, with similar prices
and similar quality.”
Kjell Nordström and Jonas Ridderstråle, Funky Business
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“Companies have defined so much ‘best practice’
that they are now more or less identical.”
Jesper Kunde, Unique Now ... or Never
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“We make over three new product announcements a
day. Can you remember
them? Our customers can’t!”Carly Fiorina
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09.11.2000: HP bids
$18,000,000,000for
PricewaterhouseCoopersconsulting business!
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“These days, building the best server isn’t enough. That’s the
price of entry.”Ann Livermore, Hewlett-Packard
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Gerstner’s IBM: Systems Integrator of
choice. Global Services:
$35B. Pledge/’99: Business Partner Charter. 72 strategic partners,
aim for 200. Drop many in-house
programs/products. (BW/12.01).
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“Customer Satisfaction” to “Customer Success”
“We’re getting better at [Six Sigma] every day. But we really
need to think about the customer’s profitability. Are customers’
bottom lines really benefiting from what we provide them?”
Bob Nardelli, GE Power Systems
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Keep In Mind: Customer
Satisfaction versus
Customer
Success
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E.g. …
UTC/Otis + Carrier: boxes to “integrated building systems”
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Flextronics
--$14B; 100K employees; 60% p.a. growth (’93-’00)
-- “contract mfg” to EMS/Electronics Manufacturing Services (design, mfg, logistics,
repair); “total package of outsourcing solutions” (Pamela Gordon, Technology Forecasters)
-- “The future of manufacturing isn’t just in making things but adding value” (3,500 design
engineers)
Source: Asia Inc./02.2004
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“UPS wants to take over the sweet spot in the endless loop
of goods, information and capital that all the packages
[it moves] represent.”ecompany.com/06.01 (E.g., UPS Logistics
manages the logistics of 4.5M Ford vehicles, from 21 mfg. sites to 6,000 NA dealers)
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“ ‘Architecture’ is becoming a commodity.
Winners will be ‘Turnkey Facilities Management’
providers.”SMPS Exec
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Omnicom: 60% (of
$7B) from marketing services
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And the Winners Are …
Televisions –12%Cable TV service +5%
Toys -10%Child care +5%
Photo equipment -7%Photographer’s fees +3%
Sports Equipment -2%Admission to sporting event +3%
New car -2%Car repair +3%
Dishes & flatware -1%Eating out +2%
Gardening supplies -0.1%Gardening services +2%
Source: WSJ/05.16.03
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IBM/Q3/10.15.03/Rev: +5%
Services/Consulting: +11%Software: +5%Hardware: -5%
PCs: -2%Technology/Chips: -33%
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WE SELL SOLUTIONS?
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IV. NEW BUSINESS. NEW
BRAND.
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7. A World of Scintillating
“Experiences.”
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“Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from
goods.”Joseph Pine & James Gilmore, The Experience Economy:
Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage
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“Club Med is more than just a ‘resort’; it’s a means of rediscovering oneself, of inventing an
entirely new ‘me.’ ”
Source: Jean-Marie Dru, Disruption
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“The [Starbucks] Fix” Is on …
“We have identified a ‘third place.’ And I really believe that sets us apart. The third place is
that place that’s not work or home. It’s the place our
customers come for refuge.”Nancy Orsolini, District Manager
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“Guinness as a brand is all about community.
It’s about bringing people together and sharing
stories.”—Ralph Ardill, Imagination, in re Guinness Storehouse
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Experience: “Rebel Lifestyle!”
“What we sell is the ability for a 43-year-old accountant to dress in black leather, ride
through small towns and have people be afraid of him.”
Harley exec, quoted in Results-Based Leadership
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WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?
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Bob Lutz: “I see us as being in the art business. Art,
entertainment and mobile sculpture, which,
coincidentally, also happens to provide transportation.”
Source: NYT 10.19.01
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“Lexus sells its cars as containers for our
sound systems. It’s marvelous.”—Sidney Harman/
Harman International
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Duet … Whirlpool … “washing machine” to “fabric care system” … white goods: “a sea of
undifferentiated boxes” … $400 to $1,300 … “the Ferrari of washing machines” …
consumer: “They are our little mechanical buddies. They have personality. When they are
running efficiently, our lives are running efficiently. They are part of my family.” …
“machine as aesthetic showpiece” … “laundry room” to “family studio” / “designer laundry
room” (complements Sub-Zero refrigerator and home-theater center)
Source: New York Times Magazine/01.11.2004
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“Most executives have no idea how to add value to a market in the metaphysical
world. But that is what the market will cry out for in the future. There is no lack of ‘physical’ products to
choose between.”
Jesper Kunde, Unique Now ... or Never [on the excellence of Nokia, Nike, Lego, Virgin et al.]
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Extraction & Goods: Male dominance
Services & Experiences: Female
dominance
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The “Experience Ladder”
Experiences Services
Goods Raw Materials
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<TGWvs.
>TGR
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8. Experiences+: Embracing the
“Dream Business.”
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DREAM: “A dream is a complete moment in the life of a client.
Important experiences that tempt the client to commit substantial resources. The essence of the desires of the consumer. The
opportunity to help clients become what they want to be.” —Gian Luigi
Longinotti-Buitoni
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The marketing of Dreams (Dreamketing)
Dreamketing: Touching the clients’ dreams.
Dreamketing: The art of telling stories and entertaining.
Dreamketing: Promote the dream, not the product.
Dreamketing: Build the brand around the main dream.
Dreamketing: Build the “buzz,” the “hype,” the “cult.”
Source: Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni
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(Revised) Experience Ladder
Dreams Come True Awesome Experiences
SolutionsServicesGoods
Raw Materials
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“The sun is setting on the Information Society—even before we have fully adjusted to its demands as individuals and as
companies. We have lived as hunters and as farmers, we have worked in factories and now we live in an information-based society whose icon is the computer. We stand facing the fifth kind of society: the Dream Society. … The Dream Society is emerging this very instant—the shape of the future is visible today. Right now is the time for decisions—before the major
portion of consumer purchases are made for emotional, nonmaterialistic reasons. Future products will have to appeal to our hearts, not to our heads. Now is the time to add emotional
value to products and services.” —Rolf Jensen/The Dream Society:How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business
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New Market Realities
Selling Dreams: How to Make Any Product Irresistible, Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni
The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your
Business, Rolf Jensen
Trading Up: The New American Luxury, Michael Silverstein & Neil Fiske
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15 “Leading” Biz Schools
Design/Core: 0Design/Elective: 1
Creativity/Core: 0Creativity/Elective: 4
Innovation/Core: 0Innovation/Elective: 6
Source: DMI/Summer 2002
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9. “It” all adds up
to … THE BRAND.
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“WHO ARE WE?”
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“WHAT’S OUR
STORY?”
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“We are in the twilight of a society based on data. As information and intelligence become the domain of computers, society will place more value on the one human ability that cannot be automated: emotion.
Imagination, myth, ritual - the language of emotion - will affect everything from our purchasing decisions
to how we work with others. Companies will thrive on the basis of their stories and myths. Companies will need to understand
that their products are less important than their stories.”
Rolf Jensen, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
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“Apple opposes, IBM solves, Nike exhorts, Virgin enlightens,
Sony dreams, Benetton
protests. … Brands are not nouns but verbs.”
Source: Jean-Marie Dru, Disruption
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“EXACTLY HOW ARE WE
DRAMATICALLY DIFFERENT?”
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“WHY DOES IT MATTER TO
THE CLIENT?”
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“EXACTLY HOW DO I PASSIONATELY CONVEY THAT
DRAMATIC DIFFERENCE TO THE
CLIENT ?”
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Branding: Is-Is Not “Table”
TNT is not: TNT is: TNT is not:
Juvenile Contemporary Old-fashioned
Mindless Meaningful Elitist
Predictable Suspenseful Dull
Frivolous Exciting Slow
Superficial Powerful Self-important
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Message …
Is Not >> Is
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V. NEW BUSINESS.
NEW MARKETS.
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10. Trends Worth Trillion$$$ I:
Women Roar.
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?????????
Home Furnishings … 94%Vacations … 92% (Adventure Travel … 70%/ $55B travel equipment)
Houses … 91%D.I.Y. (major “home projects”) … 80%
Consumer Electronics … 51% (66% home computers)
Cars … 68% (90%)All consumer purchases … 83%
Bank Account … 89%Household investment decisions … 67%Small business loans/biz starts … 70%
Health Care … 80%
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2/3rds working women/50+% working wives > 50%
80% checks61% bills
53% stock (mutual fund boom)
43% > $500K95% financial decisions/
29% single handed
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1970-1998
Men’s median income: +0.6%Women’s median income: + 63%
Source: Martha Barletta, Marketing to Women
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$5+T > Japan
10M/28M/$3.6T > Germany
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Business Purchasing Power
Purchasing mgrs. & agents: 51%HR: >>50%
Admin officers: >50%
Source: Martha Barletta, Marketing to Women
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91% women: ADVERTISERS DON’T
UNDERSTAND US. (58% “ANNOYED.”)
Source: Greenfield Online for Arnold’s Women’s Insight Team (Martha Barletta, Marketing to Women)
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Carol Gilligan/ In a Different Voice
Men: Get away from authority, familyWomen: Connect
Men: Self-orientedWomen: Other-oriented
Men: RightsWomen: Responsibilities
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FemaleThink/ Popcorn
“Men and women don’t think the same way, don’t communicate the same
way, don’t buy for the same reasons.”
“He simply wants the transaction to take place. She’s interested in
creating a relationship. Every place women go, they make
connections.”
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“Men seem like loose cannons. Men always move faster through a store’s
aisles. Men spend less time looking. They usually don’t like asking where things are.
You’ll see a man move impatiently through a store to the section he wants,
pick something up, and then, almost abruptly he’s ready to buy. For a
man, ignoring the price tag is almost a sign of virility.”
Paco Underhill, Why We Buy* (*Buy this book!)
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Women's View of Male Salespeople
Technically knowledgeable; assertive; get to the point; pushy;
condescending; insensitive to women’s needs.
Source: Judith Tingley, How to Sell to the Opposite Sex (Martha Barletta, Marketing to Women)
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Read This: Barbara & Allan Pease’s
Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps
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“Resting” State: 30%, 90%: “A woman knows her children’s
friends, hopes, dreams, romances, secret fears, what they are
thinking, how they are feeling. Men are vaguely aware of some short people also living in the house.”
Barbara & Allan Pease, Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps
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“As a hunter, a man needed vision that would allow him to zero in on targets in the distance … whereas a woman needed eyes
to allow a wide arc of vision so that she could monitor any predators sneaking up on the nest. This is why modern men can find their way effortlessly to a distant pub,
but can never find things in fridges, cupboards or drawers.”
Barbara & Allan Pease, Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps
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“Female hearing advantage contributes significantly to what is
called ‘women’s intuition’ and is one of the reasons why a woman can read between the lines of what people say. Men, however, shouldn’t despair.
They are excellent at imitating animal sounds.”
Barbara & Allan Pease, Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps
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Senses
Vision: Men, focused; Women, peripheral.
Hearing: Women’s discomfort level I/2 men’s.
Smell: Women >> Men.Touch: Most sensitive man <
Least sensitive women.
Source: Martha Barletta, Marketing to Women
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“When a woman is upset, she talks
emotionally to her friends; but an upset
man rebuilds a motor or fixes a leaking tap.”
Barbara & Allan Pease, Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps
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Editorial/Men: Tables, rankings.*
Editorial/Women: Narratives that cohere.*
*Redwood (UK)
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“Women are more comfortable talking or
thinking about people and relationships, while men
prefer to contemplate things.” —research reported in the New York
Times (08.10.2003)
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Read This Book …
EVEolution: The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women
Faith Popcorn & Lys Marigold
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EVEolution: Truth No. 1
Connecting Your Female Consumers to Each
Other Connects Them to Your Brand
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“The ‘Connection Proclivity’ in women starts early. When asked,
‘How was school today?’ a girl usually tells her mother every
detail of what happened, while a boy might grunt, ‘Fine.’ ”
EVEolution
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“Women don’t buy
brands. They join them.”
EVEolution
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2.6 vs. 21
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Purchasing Patterns
Women: Harder to convince; more loyal once convinced.
Men: Snap decision; fickle.
Source: Martha Barletta, Marketing to Women
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Not!“Year of the
Woman”
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Enterprise Reinvention!
RecruitingHiring/Rewarding/Promoting
Structure Processes
MeasurementStrategyCulture Vision
Leadership
THE BRAND ITSELF!
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“Honey, are you sure you have
the kind of money it takes to
be looking at a car like this?”
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Psssst! Wanna see my “porn” collection?
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Ad from Furniture /Today (04.01):“MEET WITH THE EXPERTS!: How
Retailing’s Most Successful Stay that Way”
Presenting Experts: M = 16;
F = ?? (94% = 272)
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“Customer is King”: 4,440
“Customer is Queen”: 29
Source: Steve Farber/Google search/04.2002
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1. Men and women are different.2. Very different.3. VERY, VERY DIFFERENT.4. Women & Men have a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y nothing in common.5. Women buy lotsa stuff.6. WOMEN BUY A-L-L THE STUFF.7. Women’s Market = Opportunity No. 1.8. Men are (STILL) in charge.9. MEN ARE … TOTALLY, HOPELESSLY CLUELESS ABOUT WOMEN.10. Women’s Market = Opportunity No. 1.
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“And even if they manage to get the age thing right, [Marti] Barletta says companies still tend to screw up in fairly predictable ways when they add women to the equation. Too often, their first impulse is to paint the
brand pink, lavishing their ads with flowers and bows, or, conversely, pandering with images of women
warriors and other cheesy clichés. In other cases they use language intended to be empathetic that come
across instead as borderline offensive. ‘One bank took out an ad saying, We recognize women’s special
needs,’ says Barletta. ‘No offense, but doesn’t that sound like the Special Olympics?’ ” —Fast Company/03.04
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WOMEN ROAR?
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11. Trends Worth Trillion$$$ II: Boomer
Bonanza/ Godzilla Geezer.
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Subject: Marketers & Stupidity
“It’s 18-44, stupid!”
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Subject: Marketers & Stupidity
Or is it: “18-44 is stupid,
stupid!”
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2000-2010 Stats
18-44: -1%
55+: +21%(55-64: +47%)
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44-65: “New Consumer Majority” *
*45% larger than 18-43; 60% larger by 2010Source: Ageless Marketing, David Wolfe & Robert Snyder
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“The New Consumer Majority is the only adult
market with realistic prospects for significant
sales growth in dozens of product lines for thousands of companies.” —David Wolfe & Robert
Snyder, Ageless Marketing
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“Baby-boomer Women: The Sweetest
of Sweet Spots for Marketers” —David Wolfe and Robert
Snyder, Ageless Marketing
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“Sixty Is the New Thirty”
—Cover/AARP/11.03
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50+
$7T wealth (70%)/$2T annual income50% all discretionary spending
79% own homes/40M credit card users41% new cars/48% luxury cars
$610B healthcare spending/74% prescription drugs
5% of advertising targets
Ken Dychtwald, Age Power: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old
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“Advertisers pay more to reach the kid because they think that once someone hits
middle age he’s too set in his ways to be
susceptible to advertising. … In fact, this notion of impressionable kids
and hidebound geezers is little more than a fairy tale, a Madison
Avenue gloss on Hollywood’s cult of youth.”—James Surowiecki (The New
Yorker/04.01.2002)
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Read This!
Carol Morgan & Doran Levy,
Marketing to the Mindset of Boomers
and Their Elders
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“Marketers attempts at reaching those over 50 have
been miserably unsuccessful. No market’s motivations and needs are so poorly understood.”—Peter
Francese, founding publisher, American Demographics
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“Focused on assessing the marketplace based on lifetime
value (LTV), marketers may dismiss the mature market as
headed to its grave. The reality is that at 60 a person in the U.S. may enjoy 20 or 30 years of life.” —Carol
Morgan & Doran Levy, Marketing to the Mindset of Boomers and Their Elders
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“Women 65 and older spent $14.7 billion on apparel in 1999, almost as much as that spent by 25- to 34-year-
olds. While spending by the older women increased by 12% from the previous year, that of the younger group increased by only 0.1%. But
who in the fashion industry is currently pursuing this market?” —Carol
Morgan & Doran Levy, Marketing to the Mindset of Boomers and Their Elders
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Possession Experiences /“Desires for things”/Young adulthood/to 38
Catered Experiences/ “Desires to be served by others”/Middle adulthood
Being Experiences/“Desires for trancendary experiences”/Late
adulthood
Source: David Wolfe and Robert Snyder/Ageless Marketing
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“ ‘Age Power’ will rule the 21st century, and we are woefully
unprepared.”Ken Dychtwald, Age Power: How the 21st
Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old
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No: “Target Marketing”
Yes: “Target
Innovation” & “Target Delivery Systems”
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Marketing to Women, Martha Barletta
EVEolution: The Eight Truths of Marketing to Women, Faith Popcorn & Lys Marigold
Ageless Marketing, David Wolfe & Robert Snyder
Marketing to the Mindset of Boomers and Their Elders, Carol Morgan & Doran Levy
Selling Dreams: How to Make Any Product Irresistible, Gian Luigi Longinotti-Buitoni
The Dream Society: How the Coming Shift from Information to Imagination Will Transform Your Business, Rolf Jensen
Trading Up: The New American Luxury, Michael Silverstein & Neil Fiske
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VII. NEW BUSINESS. NEW
YOU.
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12. Re-inventing the Individual: Welcome
to a Brand You World
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In Store: International Equality, Intranational Inequality
“The new organization of society implied by the triumph of individual autonomy and the true equalization of opportunity based upon merit will lead to very great
rewards for merit and great individual autonomy. This will leave individuals far more responsible for
themselves than they have been accustomed to being during the industrial period. It will also reduce the
unearned advantage in living standards that has been enjoyed by residents of advanced industrial societies
throughout the 20th century.”
James Davidson & William Rees-Mogg,The Sovereign Individual
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“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
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“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you
can create your own legend or not.”
Isabel Allende
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“My ancestors were printers in Amsterdam from 1510 or so until
1750, and during that entire time they didn’t have to learn anything
new.”Peter Drucker, Business 2.0 (08.22.00)
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“Knowledge becomes obsolete incredibly fast. The
continuing professional education of adults is the
No. 1 industry in the next 30 years … mostly on line.”
Peter Drucker,Business 2.0 (22August2000)
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26.3
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Prep: 1 hour per 1 minute (WSC) “Forget ‘practice makes perfect.’
Substitute ‘perfect practice makes perfect.’ ” (TT) “Major difference between ‘best’ and ‘average’?
‘Best’ get as much pleasure from practice as performance.” —Ben Zander
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Edward Jones’ Training Machine*
146 hours/employee/yearNew hires: 4X avg.
3.8% of payroll
* #1, “The 100 Best Companies To Work For”/Fortune/01.2003
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13. Boss Job One:
The Talent Obsession.
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Age of AgricultureIndustrial Age
Age of Information IntensificationAge of Creation Intensification
Source: Murikami Teruyasu, Nomura Research Institute
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Brand = Talent.
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The Talent Ten
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1. Obsession
P.O.T.* = All Consuming
*Pursuit of Talent
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Model 25/8/53
Sports Franchise GM
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“In most companies, the Talent Review Process is a farce. At GE, Jack Welch and his two top HR people visit each division
for a day. They review the top 20 to 50 people by name. They talk about Talent Pool strengthening issues. The Talent
Review Process is a contact sport at GE; it has the intensity and the importance of the budget process at most companies.”—Ed
Michaels
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“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
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2. Greatness
Only The Best!
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From “1, 2 or you’re out” [JW] to …
“Best Talent in each industry segment to build
best proprietary intangibles” [EM]
Source: Ed Michaels, War for Talent
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3. Performance
Up or out!
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“We believe companies can increase their market cap 50 percent in 3 years. Steve
Macadam at Georgia-Pacific changed 20 of his 40 box plant managers to put
more talented, higher paid managers in charge. He increased profitability from $25 million to $80 million
in 2 years.”
Ed Michaels, War for Talent
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4. Pay
Pay Up!
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“Top performing companies are two to four times more likely
than the rest to pay what it takes to prevent losing
top performers.”
Ed Michaels, War for Talent (05.17.00)
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5. Youth
Grovel Before the Young!
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“Why focus on these late teens and twenty-
somethings? Because they are the first young who are both in a position to change the world, and are actually doing so. … For the first time in history,
children are more comfortable, knowledgeable and literate than their parents about an
innovation central to society. … The Internet has triggered the first industrial revolution in history
to be led by the young.”
The Economist [12/2000]
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6. Diversity
Mess Rules!
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“Where do good new ideas come from? That’s simple! From
differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.
The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures and
disciplines.”
Nicholas Negroponte
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CM Prof Richard Florida on
“Creative Capital”: “You cannot get a technologically
innovative place unless it’s open to weirdness,
eccentricity and difference.”
Source: New York Times/06.01.2002
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7. Women
Born to Lead!
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“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
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8. Weird
The Cracked Ones Let in the Light!
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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
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9. Opportunity
Make It an Adventure!
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“H.R.” to “H.E.D.” ???
Human
Enablement
Department
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“Firms will not ‘manage the careers’ of their employees. They
will provide opportunities to enable the employee to develop
identity and adaptability and
thus be in charge of his or her own career.”
Tim Hall et al., “The New Protean Career Contract”
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Talent Department
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People Department
Center for Talent Excellence
Seriously Cool People Who Recruit & Develop Seriously Cool People
Etc.
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10. Leading Genius
We are all unique!
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Beware Lurking HR Types … One size
NEVER fits all. One size fits one. Period.
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Our Mission
To develop and manage talent;to apply that talent,
throughout the world, for the benefit of clients;to do so in partnership;
to do so with profit.
WPP
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Talent’s “Big Two” Rules
GREAT Finance Dept. = GREAT Football Team
DIFFERENCES Among Cello Players = DIFFERENCES
Among Hotel GMs
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14. Meet the New Boss: Women Rule!
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“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
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Lawrence A. Pfaff & Associates
— 2 Years, 941 mgrs (672M, 269F); 360º feedback — Women: 20 of 20; 15 of 20 with statistical significance (incl. decisiveness, planning, setting stds.) — “Men are not rated significantly higher by any of the raters in any of the areas measured.” (LP)
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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
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“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
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“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
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Work’s Rewards
F: Relationships, respect, self-realization.
M: Title, salary, power. (“In all my research with men, I’ve never once heard
a mention about the importance of relationships.”)
Source: Susan Rice, former Director of Communications, BBDO Europe (from “A Dignified Woman”)
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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
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Degree Gap*
Wom:Men/Bachelor’s … 2000: 133; 2010: 142
Wom:Men/Master’s … 2000: 138; 2010: 151
* Whites, Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Native Americans
Source: The New Gender Gap/BusWeek/05.26.2003
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“Are men obsolete?” —Headline,
USN&WR/06.03.03
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15. Brand Talent+: Addressing the
Education Fiasco.
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J. D. Rockefeller’s General Education Board
(1906): “In our dreams people yield themselves with perfect docility to our
molding hands. … The task is simple. We will organize children and teach
them in a perfect way the things their fathers and mothers are doing in an imperfect way.”
John Taylor Gatto, A Different Kind of Teacher
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“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!
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“How many artists are there in the room? Would you please raise your hands. FIRST GRADE: En masse the children leapt from their seats, arms waving. Every child was an artist. SECOND
GRADE: About half the kids raised their hands, shoulder high, no higher. The hands were still. THIRD GRADE: At best, 10 kids out
of 30 would raise a hand, tentatively, self-consciously. By the time I reached SIXTH GRADE, no more than one or two kids
raised their hands, and then ever so slightly, betraying a fear of being identified by the group as a ‘closet artist.’ The point is:
Every school I visited was participating in the suppression of creative genius.”
Gordon MacKenzie, Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace
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Ye gads: “Thomas Stanley has not only found no correlation between success in school and an
ability to accumulate wealth, he’s actually found a negative correlation. ‘It seems that school-
related evaluations are poor predictors of economic success,’ Stanley concluded. What did predict success was a willingness to take risks.
Yet the success-failure standards of most schools penalized risk takers. Most educational
systems reward those who play it safe. As a result, those who do well in school find it hard to
take risks later on.”Richard Farson & Ralph Keyes, Whoever Makes the Most Mistakes Wins
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“My education was a prolonged and concerted
attack on my individuality.” —Neil Crofts, Authentic
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VIII. NEW BUSINESS: (NEW)
BRAND INSIDE RULES
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16. THINK WEIRD … the HVA/
High Value Added Bedrock.
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THINK WEIRD: The High Standard
Deviation Enterprise.
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Saviors-in-Waiting
Disgruntled CustomersOff-the-Scope Competitors
Rogue EmployeesFringe Suppliers
Wayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision: Beat the Competition by Focusing on Fringe Competitors, Lost Customers, and Rogue Employees
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CUSTOMERS: “Future-defining customers may
account for only 2% to 3% of your total, but they represent a crucial
window on the future.”Adrian Slywotzky, Mercer Consultants
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“If you worship at the throne of the voice of the customer, you’ll get only
incremental advances.”Joseph Morone, President,
Bentley College
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COMPETITORS: “The best swordsman in the world doesn’t need to fear
the second best swordsman in the world; no, the person for him to be afraid of is some ignorant antagonist who has never had a
sword in his hand before; he doesn’t do the thing he ought to do, and so the expert isn’t
prepared for him; he does the thing he ought not to do and often it catches the expert out and
ends him on the spot.”
Mark Twain
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“To grow, companies need to break out of a vicious
cycle of competitive benchmarking and
imitation.” —W. Chan Kim & Renee Mauborgne,
“”Think for Yourself —Stop Copying a Rival,” Financial Times/08.11.03
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“The short road to ruin is to emulate the
methods of your adversary.”
— Winston Churchill
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“This is an essay about what it takes to create and sell something remarkable. It is a plea for originality, passion, guts and daring. You can’t be remarkable by following someone else who’s remarkable. One way to figure out a theory is to look at
what’s working in the real world and determine what the successes have in common. But what could the Four Seasons and Motel 6 possibly have in common? Or Neiman-Marcus and Wal*Mart? Or Nokia (bringing out new hardware every 30 days or so) and Nintendo (marketing the same Game Boy 14 years in
a row)? It’s like trying to drive looking in the rearview mirror. The thing that all these companies have in common is that they
have nothing in common. They are outliers. They’re on the fringes. Superfast or superslow. Very exclusive or very cheap.
Extremely big or extremely small. The reason its so hard to follow the leader is this: The leader is the leader precisely
because he did something remarkable. And that remarkable thing is now taken—so it’s no longer remarkable when you
decide to do it.” —Seth Godin, Fast Company/02.2003
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Employees: “Are there enough weird
people in the lab these days?”
V. Chmn., pharmaceutical house, to a lab director (06.01)
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Suppliers: “There is an ominous downside to strategic supplier
relationships. An SSR supplier is not likely to function as any more than a mirror to your organization. Fringe suppliers that offer innovative business practices need
not apply.”
Wayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision: Beat the Competition by Focusing on Fringe Competitors, Lost Customers, and Rogue Employees
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Boards: “Extremely contentious boards that regard dissent as an
obligation and that treat no subject as undiscussable” —Jeffrey
Sonnenfeld, Yale School of Management
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“The Bottleneck is at the Top of the Bottle”
“Where are you likely to find people with the least diversity of experience, the largest investment in the past, and
the greatest reverence for industry dogma?
At the top!” — Gary Hamel, “Strategy or Revolution/
Harvard Business Review
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We become who we
hang out with!
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WEIRD IDEAS THAT WORK: (1) Hire slow learners (of the organizational code). (1.5) Hire people who make you
uncomfortable, even those you dislike. (2) Hire people you (probably) don’t need. (3) Use job interviews to get ideas, not
to screen candidates. (4) Encourage people to ignore and defy superiors and peers. (5) Find some happy people and get them to fight. (6) Reward success and failure, punish inaction.
(7) Decide to do something that will probably fail, then convince yourself and everyone else that success is certain. (8) Think of
some ridiculous, impractical things to do, then do them. (9) Avoid, distract, and bore customers, critics, and anyone who just wants to talk about money. (10) Don’t try to learn anything from people who seem to have solved the problems you face.
(11) Forget the past, particularly your company’s success.
Bob Sutton, Weird Ideas That Work: 11½ Ideas for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
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Kevin Roberts’ Credo
1. Ready. Fire! Aim.2. If it ain’t broke ... Break it!3. Hire crazies.4. Ask dumb questions.5. Pursue failure.6. Lead, follow ... or get out of the way!7. Spread confusion.8. Ditch your office.9. Read odd stuff.10. Avoid moderation!
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Big Idea/s
V.C. GM
PortfolioRoster
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Innovation Index: How many of your Top 5
Strategic Initiatives score 7 or higher (out of 10) on a “Weirdness/Profundity
Scale”?
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IX. NEW BUSINESS. NEW LEADERSHIP.
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20. The Passion
Imperative: The
Leadership50
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The Basic Premise.
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“Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it
difficult for people to get things done.” – P.D.
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1. Leadership Is a …
Mutual Discovery Process.
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“I don’t know.”
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Quests!
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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.”
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The Leadership
Types.
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2. Great Leaders on Snorting
Steeds Are Important – but
Great Talent Developers (Type I
Leadership) are the Bedrock of Organizations that Perform Over
the Long Haul.
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Whoops: Jack didn’t have a vision!
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3. But Then Again, There Are Times When This “Cult of Personality”
(Type II Leadership) Stuff Actually Works!
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“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Napoleon
(+TP’s writing room pics)
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4. Find the “Businesspeople”!
(Type III Leadership)
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I.P.M. (Inspired Profit
Mechanic)
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5. All Organizations
Need the Golden Leadership
Triangle.
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The Golden Leadership Triangle: (1) Creator-
Visionary … (2) Talent Fanatic-Mentor … (3)
Inspired Profit Mechanic.
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The Essential Tension
— Keeper of the Flame of Creation (Brahma = Creator) — Keeper of the Flame of Preservation (Vishnu = Preserver) — Keeper of the Flame of Destruction (Shiva = Destroyer)
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6. Leadership Mantra
#1: IT ALL DEPENDS!
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Renaissance Men are … a snare, a
myth, a delusion!
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7. The Leader Is Rarely/Never the Best Performer.
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The Leadership
Dance.
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8. Leaders …
SHOW UP!
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Rudy!
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“A body can pretend to care, but they
can’t pretend to be there.” — Texas Bix Bender
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9. Leaders … LOVE the
MESS!
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“If things seem under control, you’re just not
going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti
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“I’m not comfortable unless
I’m uncomfortable.”—Jay Chiat
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10. Leaders
DO!
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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!)
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“We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.” — Herb Kelleher
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11. Leaders
Re-do.
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“If Microsoft is good at anything, it’s avoiding the trap of worrying about criticism. Microsoft fails constantly.
They’re eviscerated in public for lousy
products. Yet they persist, through version after version, until they get
something good enough. Then they leverage the power they’ve gained in
other markets to enforce their standard.”Seth Godin, Zooming
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“If it works, it’s
obsolete.”
—Marshall McLuhan
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12. BUT … Leaders
Know When to Wait.
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Tex Schramm: The
“too hard” box!
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13. Leaders Are …
Optimists.
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Hackneyed but none the less
true: LEADERS SEE CUPS AS “HALF
FULL.”
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Half-full Cups: “[Ronald Reagan] radiated an almost transcendent
happiness.”Lou Cannon, George (08.2000)
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14. Leaders …
DELIVER!
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“Leaders don’t
‘want to’ win.
Leaders ‘need to’ win.”
#49
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“It is no use saying ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing
what is necessary.” —WSC
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15. BUT … Leaders Are
Realists/Leaders Win Through LOGISTICS!
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The “Gus Imperative”!
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16. Leaders
FOCUS!
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“To Don’t ” List
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“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
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17. Leaders …
Set CLEAR DESIGN SPECS.
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Danger: S.I.O. (Strategic
Initiative Overload)
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JackWorld/1@T: (1) Neutron Jack. (Banish bureaucracy.) (2) “1, 2 or out” Jack. (Lead or leave.) (3)
“Workout” Jack. (Empowerment,
GE style.) (4) 6-Sigma Jack. (5)
Internet Jack. (Throughout)
TALENT JACK!
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18. Leaders …
Send V-E-R-Y Clear Signals About
Design Specs!
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Ridin’ with Roger: “What have you done to
DRAMATICALLY IMPROVE quality in the
last 90 days?”
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If It Ain’t Broke … Break It.
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19. Leaders …FORGET!/
Leaders … DESTROY!
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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
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Cortez!
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20. BUT … Leaders
Have to Deliver, So They Worry About “Throwing the Baby Out with the
Bathwater.”
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“Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t, Just Plain
Damned.”Subtitle in the chapter, “Own Up to the Great Paradox: Success
Is the Product of Deep Grooves/ Deep Grooves Destroy Adaptivity,” Liberation Management (1992)
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21. Leaders …
HONOR THE USURPERS.
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Saviors-in-Waiting
Disgruntled CustomersUpstart CompetitorsRogue EmployeesFringe Suppliers
Wayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision
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22. Leaders Make [Lotsa] Mistakes
– and MAKE NO BONES ABOUT IT!
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Sam’s Secret #1!
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23. Leaders Make …
BIG MISTAKES!
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“Reward excellent
failures. Punish mediocre successes.”
Phil Daniels, Sydney exec (and, de facto, Jack)
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Silicon Valley Success [Failure?] Secrets
“Pursuit of risk”: 4 of 20 in V.C. portfolio go bust; 6 lose money;
6 do okay; 3 do well; 1 hits the jackpot
Source: The Economist
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Okay? 1 in 20
(4 in 20)
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Create.
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24. Leaders Know that
THERE’S MORE TO LIFE THAN “LINE EXTENSIONS.” Leaders Love to CREATE NEW
MARKETS.
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No one ever made it into the Business Hall of Fame on a record of
“line extensions.”
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“Acquisitions are about
buying market share. Our challenge is to create markets.
There is a big difference.” Peter Job, CEO, Reuters
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25. Leaders … Make Their Mark /
Leaders … Do Stuff That Matters
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“I never, ever thought of myself
as a businessman. I was interested in creating
things I would be proud of.” —Richard Branson
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Legacy!
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CEO Assignment2002 (Bermuda):
“Please leap forward to 2007, 2012, or 2022, and write a business history of
Bermuda. What will have been said about your company during your
tenure?”
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Ah, kids: “What is your vision for the future?” “What have you accomplished since your first book?” “Close your eyes and
imagine me immediately doing something about what you’ve just said. What would it be?”
“Do you feel you have an obligation to ‘Make the world a
better place’?”
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26. Leaders Push Their
Organizations W-a-y Up the Value-added/
Intellectual Capital Chain
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09.11.2000: HP bids
$18,000,000,000for
PricewaterhouseCoopersConsulting business!
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27. Leaders
LOVE the New Technology!
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100 square feet
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28. Needed? Type IV Leadership: Technology
Dreamer-True Believer
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The Golden Leadership Quadrangle: (1) Creator-Visionary … (2) Talent
Fanatic-Mentor-V.C. … (3) Inspired Profit Mechanic. (4) Technology Dreamer-True
Believer
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Talent.
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29. When It Comes to
TALENT … Leaders Cultivate
Boldness!
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30. Leaders Don’t Create “Followers”:
THEY CREATE LEADERS!
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“I start with the premise that the
function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more
followers.”—Ralph Nader
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31. Leaders “Win Followers Over”
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WHAT AN IDIOT: “Instead of employees being in the driver’s
seat, now we’re in the driver’s seat.”
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PJ: “Coaching is winning
players over.”
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Passion.
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32. Leaders …
Out Their
PASSION!
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G.H.: “Create a ‘cause,’ not a ‘business.’ ”
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33. Leaders Know: ENTHUSIASM
BEGETS ENTHUSIASM!
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BZ: “I am a … Dispenser of Enthusiasm!”
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“You can’t behave in a calm, rational manner. You’ve got to
be out there on the lunatic fringe.” — Jack Welch,
on GE’s quality program
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34. Leaders Are …
in a Hurry
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The Urgency Factor: LEADERS … have a distorted
sense of time.
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35. Leaders Focus on the
SOFT STUFF!
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“Soft” Is “Hard”
- ISOE
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Message: Leadership is all about love! [Passion, Enthusiasms, Appetite for Life,
Engagement, Commitment, Great Causes & Determination to Make a
Damn Difference, Shared Adventures, Bizarre Failures, Growth, Insatiable
Appetite for Change.] [Otherwise, why bother? Just read Dilbert. TP’s final words: CYNICISM SUCKS.]
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The “Job” of Leading.
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36. Leaders Know It’s
ALL SALES ALL THE TIME.
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TP: If you don’t LOVE SALES … find
another life. (Don’t pretend
you’re a “leader.”) (See TP’s The Project50.)
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37. Leaders
LOVE “POLITICS.”
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TP: If you don’t LOVE POLITICS … find
another life. (Don’t pretend
you’re a “leader.”)
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38. But … Leaders Also
Break a Lot of China
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If nobody’s angry with, you’re not
making a difference!
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39. Leaders
Give … RESPECT!
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“It was much later that I realized Dad’s secret. He gained respect by giving it. He
talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids in Spring Valley who shined shoes the same way he talked and listened to a
bishop or a college president. He was seriously interested in who you were and what you had to say.”
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect
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40. Leaders Say
“Thank You.”
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“The two most powerful things
in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.”
Ken Langone, CEO, Invemed Associates [from Ronna Lichtenberg, It’s Not Business, It’s Personal]
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41. Leaders Are …
Curious.
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TP/08.2001: The Three Most Important Letters …
WHY?
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42. Leadership Is a …
Performance.
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“It is necessary for the President to be the
nation’s No. 1 actor.”
FDR
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“You can’t lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a
horse.” —John Peers, President, Logical
Machine Corporation
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43. Leaders … Are The Brand
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The BRAND lives (OR DIES) in the “minutiae” of the leader’s moment-
to-moment actions.
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“You must be the change you
wish to see in the world.”
Gandhi
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44. Leaders …
Have a GREAT STORY!
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“A key – perhaps the key – to leadership is the effective
communication of a story.”
Howard Gardner Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership
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Leaders don’t just make products and make decisions.
Leaders make meaning. – John Seely Brown
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Introspection.
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45. Leaders …
Enjoy Leading.
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“Warren, I know you want to ‘be’
president. But do you want to ‘do’
president?”
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46. Leaders …
KNOW THEMSELVES.
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Individuals (would-be leaders) cannot engage in a
liberating mutual discovery process unless they are comfortable with their own skin. (“Leaders” who are not comfortable with themselves become petty
control freaks.)
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47. But … Leaders
have MENTORS.
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The Gospel According to TP: Upon having the Leadership
Mantle placed upon thine head, thou shalt never hear the unvarnished
truth again!* (*Therefore, thy needs one faithful
compatriot to lay it on with no jelly.)
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48. Leaders … Take Breaks.
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Zombie!Zombie!Zombie!Zombie!
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The End Game.
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49. Leaders ???
:
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“Leadership is the PROCESS of
ENGAGING PEOPLE in CREATING a LEGACY
of EXCELLENCE.”
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“ ‘It’s only business, not personal’ … IT
ALWAYS IS PERSONAL.”
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“LEADERS NEED TO BE THE ROCK OF
GIBRALTAR ON ROLLER BLADES”
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50. Leaders Know
WHEN TO LEAVE!
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“Sir Richard’s Rules:
“Follow your passions.“Keep it simple.
“Get the best people to help you.“Re-create yourself.
“Play.”
Source: Fortune/10.03
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“It’s no longer enough to be a ‘change agent.’ You must be a CHANGE INSURGENT
—provoking, prodding, warning everyone in sight
that complacency is death.” —Bob Reich