Today, we started a new 'lunch and learn' program in our cafeteria.
We kicked it off with one of my heroes, Tom Peters, by playing "Tom Peters Live: Re-imagine! Business Excellence in a Disruptive Age".
Tom Peters, 65 years young, has more energy than three 20 year-olds. And more anarchy, too! At $29.99, there is absolutely no reason for you to not experience Tom Peters.
The ultimate management provocateur, Tom cannot go ten minutes without challenging the status quo. Whether he's refuting Jim Collins, ripping on MBA programs, or mocking Old White Male Syndrome - Tom certainly doesn't mince words.
We had 25 or so attendees, a lot of laughter, and even more nodding heads.
Here are three great take-aways from the presentation (Tom likes to quote others).
- “Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.” - Phil Daniels, Sydney Exec
- “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 Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, Funky Business
- Michelangelo: “The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
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