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Transcript of Tom Peters’ The Age of Radicals ! 22/November/2002.
Tom Peters’
The Age of
Radicals!22/November/2002
“We are in a
brawl with no rules.”
Paul Allaire
“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
“Unless mankind redesigns itself by changing our DNA through altering our genetic
makeup, computer-generated robots will take
over the world.” – Stephen
Hawking, in the German magazine Focus
The greatest dangerfor most of us
is not that our aim istoo high
and we miss it,but that it is
too lowand we reach it.
Michelangelo
“Don’t rebuild. Reimagine.”
The New York Times Magazine on the future of the WTC space in Lower Manhattan/09.08.2002
“There’s no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was
your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve
believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll
“Reward excellent failures. Punish
mediocre successes.”
Phil Daniels, Sydney exec
“Let’s make a dent in the universe.”
Steve Jobs
Joe J. Jones Joe J. Jones 1942 – 2002 1942 – 2002
HE WOULDA DONE SOME HE WOULDA DONE SOME
REALLY COOL STUFF REALLY COOL STUFF
BUT …BUT …
HIS BOSS WOULDN’T LET HIM! HIS BOSS WOULDN’T LET HIM!
“Nobody gives you power. You just take it.”—Roseanne
Characteristics of the “Also rans”*
“Minimize risk”“Respect the chain of
command”“Support the boss”
“Make budget”*Fortune, article on “Most Admired Global Corporations”
“You do not merely want to be the best of the best. You
want to be considered the only ones who do
what you do.”
Jerry Garcia
Joe J. Jones Joe J. Jones 1942 – 20021942 – 2002
HE WOULDA DONE SOME HE WOULDA DONE SOME
REALLY COOL STUFF REALLY COOL STUFF
BUT …BUT …
HIS BOSS WOULDN’T HIS BOSS WOULDN’T
LET HIM! LET HIM!
WHO WILL GO TO STOCKHOLM? (Damn it.)
If you are not prepared to be fired over your
beliefs … you are working on the
wrong project - TP
“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
“I don’t think there’s anything worse than being
ordinary.”American Beauty
“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you
can create your own legend or not.”
Isabel Allende
Bill Parcells’ World/ Brand You World!
BLAME NOBODY!EXPECT NOTHING!DO SOMETHING!
NY Post (9/99)
“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
“AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE: New Studies find that female managers
outshine their male counterparts in almost
every measure”Title, Special Report, Business Week, 11.20.00
“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
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
Deviants, Inc. “Deviance tells the story of every mass
market ever created. What starts out weird and dangerous
becomes America’s next big corporate payday. So are you looking for the next mass market idea? It’s out there … way
out there.”
Source: Ryan Matthews & Watts Wacker, Fast Company (03.02)
Read This!
Richard Farson & Ralph Keyes: Whoever Makes the Most
Mistakes Wins: The Paradox of Innovation
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, He Who Makes the Most Mistakes Wins
“The boys who made the best ‘Grotties’ usually
turned out to be nonentities later; boys who hated
Groton did much better.”FDR biographer John Gunther (quoted in Whoever Makes the
Most Mistakes Wins, Richard Farson & Ralph Keyes)
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!)
“Fail . Forward.
Fast.”High Tech CEO, Pennsylvania
“I’m not comfortable unless
I’m uncomfortable.”—Jay Chiat
“If things seem under control, you’re just not
going fast enough.”
Mario Andretti
G.H.: “Create a ‘cause,’ not a ‘business.’ ”
“I never, ever thought of myself
as a businessman. I was interested in creating
things I would be proud of.” —Richard Branson
I Believe …
1. Change will accelerate. DRAMATICALLY.2. We will RE-INVENT THE WORLD IN THE NEXT TWO GENERATIONS. (Business … Health Care … Politics … War … Education … Fundamentals of Human Interaction.)
3. OPPORTUNITIES are matchless. 4. You are either … ON THE BUS … or … OFF THE BUS.5. I WANT TO PLAY! AND YOU?
The greatest dangerfor most of us
is not that our aim istoo high
and we miss it,but that it is
too lowand we reach it.
Michelangelo
Thank You!