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Tom's frequently asked to provide strategies for surviving and thriving in a great recession. He shares his suggestions in a new video from The Little BIG Things video series. You can find the video on the top of the right column here on the front page of tompeters.com, or by clicking here . ...
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Time (1130.09) devotes a column to financial market forecasting , in particular to the wisdom of Robert Prechter. Prechter is a man after my own heart. Psychology and sociology rather than "efficiencies" drive the market: "Prechter argues," says Time , "that standard economic models of ...
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There's no "Jack Welch" these days. No one heralded as God-among-CEOs. Partially, I'm sure, because business has a low lower lowest rep during the mega-recession. Jack was a byproduct of good times; the market mostly went up during his 20 years at the helm of GE.
But if there were to be a ...
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Little is more important to America's long-term future than its true #1 "service industry"—research universities. There are rankings and rankings and rankings, and some are confusing as hell. Among the top 50, various polls give us, roughly, between 50% and 70%. (Add in the Europeans and ...
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In yesterday's post I offered up the epigraph from my forthcoming book, and my delight therewith. Namely:
"Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the grateful and appreciating heart."—Henry Clay
It strikes me that Mr. Clay's remark also ...
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The toughest part of writing a new book is choosing the epigraph—a dozen words penned by someone else that perfectly encapsulate what one has been up to for the prior five years. Well, I am entirely happy, even ecstatic, about the epigraph to The Little BIG Things *:
Courtesies of a ...
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We tend to think of the jobs economy in terms of jobs lost at the likes of GM and jobs added at the likes of Google. And thinking in such a manner is misleading, and downright dangerous.
The fact is that the American economy in particular is an economy of churn—always adding and ...
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Writing in the 23 November issue of Fortune , Geoff Colvin let slip a phrase that made me physically ill. Namely, " in the waning days of this recession ... "
How dare you!
Yes, it does look like Goldman's bonuses, and those of many or most of their I-bank pals, will ...
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In the latest installment of The Little BIG Things video series, Tom describes leadership as a sacred trust. He says that the decision to lead is the decision to be responsible for the growth and development of your fellow human beings. You can find the video on the top of the right column here ...
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I spoke at an Inc. magazine event last night in San Francisco, commemorating the winner of an entrepreneur-to-be contest with a hearty financial prize. Incidentally, in the name of Chinese ubiquity, much on our minds these days, the event is sponsored by the powerhouse Chinese B2B ...
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If you're a fan of Tom's first book, In Search of Excellence , don't miss reading this interview with his coauthor, Bob Waterman. We're glad to add Bob as a Cool Friend, and we all enjoyed working on this interview. (Yes, he does share a few secrets about what went on during the writing of ...
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Today, Tom met with about 2,000 health care senior execs, mostly from hospitals and hospital systems in National Harbor MD, right outside of Washington D.C., hosted by Press Ganey, researchers and consultants who provide solutions and resources to their clients to help them provide high quality ...
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The slides I'm posting are for an event that took place last Wednesday. Tom's been all over the world and had Internet access, but the mountains of Ecuador proved too big an obstacle. We hope he enjoyed several days of being out of touch. In a scenic location. Sounds good to me.
The event ...
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Cool Friend Dan Coyle has a terrific post on failure .
On a recent Marketplace , Charles Handy advocated for becoming a Free Agent .
BusinessWeek 's feature of ski company K2's design and innovation process teaches an important lesson on focusing on the user of your product. Hat tip to ...
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We continue our The Little BIG Things video series with "Out-Read the Other Guy." Tom reminds us that a key to success is reading. Staying informed and developing your analytical skills is essential. You can find the video on the top of the right column here on the front page. Let us know in ...
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[ Our guest blogger is Abbey Bishop. Abbey is the Executive Director of Events for Tom but more importantly today, she is the wife of a soldier. Her husband, Keith, is currently deployed in Afghanistan and all of us at tompeters.com deeply appreciate the choice he has made to serve our country ...
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[ Our guestblogger is Cool Friend Rajesh Setty. Learn more about him at his site , his blog , or follow him on Twitter . ]
Teddy Roosevelt said, "People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."
So, how do you know you are caring enough?
Do a self-assessment on ...
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On Friday, Tom was the closing speaker at the 2009 Urban Land Institute Fall Meeting and Urban Land Expo at Moscone Center in [glorious, matchless, delightful—TP] San Francisco. We'd love to hear from you if you happened to attend the event, and the PPT file is here .
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I've been fooling around with a lot of formats for recent events in the likes of Luanda, Riyadh, Dhahran, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Toronto. I've also been folding some of the stuff in the new book into my presentations. For my own use, I created a 525-slide monster I titled "Mini-MASTER." Here it ...
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Tom's public seminar yesterday was hosted by King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals in Dhahran . "KFU is as good as it gets in its field," Tom reports. "I had a lovely time. I think we got some good work done—and had a lovely time along the way. As an engineer, I have great fun ...
