1. Tom Peters’ EXCELLENCE. ALWAYS
Tom Peters’ EXCELLENCE. ALWAYS. World Business Forum Frankfurt/24October2006

2. Slides* at … tompeters.com *also see “Long” version

3. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA.

4. “I am often asked by would-be entrepreneurs seeking escape from life within huge corporate structures, ‘How do I build a small firm for myself?’ The answer seems obvious: Buy a very large one and just wait.” —Paul Ormerod, Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics

5. “Forbes100” from 1917 to 1987: 39 members of the Class of ’17 were alive in ’87; 18 in ’87 F100; 18 F100 “survivors” significantly underperformed the market; just 2 (2%), GE & Kodak, outperformed the market from 1917 to Source: Dick Foster & Sarah Kaplan, Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the Market

6. “Ford, GM and Chrysler do not just make cars expensively … they make bad cars expensively.” —Investec analyst, International Herald,

7. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA. HA.

8. “It is generally much easier to kill an organization than change it substantially.” —Kevin Kelly, Out of Control

9. Message/Implication: go for it! C.E.O. to C.D.O.

10. EXCELLENCE. ALL . YOU. NEED. TO. KNOW.

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12. EXCELLENCE. ALL. YOU. NEED. TO. KNOW. ANYWHERE. ANY MARKET. ANY TIME.

13. Jim’s Group

14. EXCELLENCE. SIBERIA.

15. “Why in the world did you go to Siberia?”

16. Raging Success = P-SQUARED. C. E-CUBED.

17. People. Product. Customers. Execution. Enthusiasm. Excellence.

18. 3. Autonomy and Entrepreneurship 4. Productivity Through People
Excellence1982: The Bedrock “Eight Basics”
1. A Bias for Action
2. Close to the Customer
3. Autonomy and Entrepreneurship
4. Productivity Through People
5. Hands On, Value-Driven
6. Stick to the Knitting
7. Simple Form, Lean Staff
8. Simultaneous Loose-Tight Properties”

19. EXCELLENCE. INNOVATE. OR. DIE.

20. “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” —Charles Darwin

21. EXCELLENCE. INNOVATE. ALL. WRONG.

22. More Than $$$$ #1 R&D spending, last 25 years/USA?

23. GM

24. “I don’t believe in economies of scale
“I don’t believe in economies of scale. You don’t get better by being bigger. You get worse.” —Dick Kovacevich/Wells Fargo

25. “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

26. EXCELLENCE. INNOVATE. AXIOMATIC.

27. The Mess Is the Message! Period!

28. Get mad. Do something about it. Now.

29. EXCELLENCE. INNOVATE. TACTICS.

30. try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it
try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. try it. Try it. Try it. try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it. Try it.

31. “This is so simple it sounds stupid, but it is amazing how few oil people really understand that you only find oil if you drill wells. You may think you’re finding it when you’re drawing maps and
studying logs, but you have to drill.”
Source: The Hunters, by John Masters, Canadian O & G wildcatter

32. “Experiment fearlessly” Source: BW0821
“Experiment fearlessly” Source: BW , Type A Organization Strategies/ “How to Hit a Moving Target”—Tactic #1

33. ready with wires and screws, we are on version
“We made mistakes, of course. Most of them were omissions we didn’t think of when we initially wrote the software. We fixed them by doing it over and over, again and again. We do the same today. While our competitors are still sucking their thumbs trying to make the design perfect, we’re already on prototype version #5. By the time our rivals are
ready with wires and screws, we are on version
#10. It gets back to planning versus acting: We act from day one; others plan how to plan—for months.” —Bloomberg by Bloomberg

34. READY. FIRE! AIM. Ross Perot (vs “Aim! Aim! Aim!” /EDS vs GM/1985)

35. 3. Autonomy and Entrepreneurship 4. Productivity Through People
Excellence1982: The Bedrock “Eight Basics”
1. A Bias for Action
2. Close to the Customer
3. Autonomy and Entrepreneurship
4. Productivity Through People
5. Hands On, Value-Driven
6. Stick to the Knitting
7. Simple Form, Lean Staff
8. Simultaneous Loose-Tight
Properties”

36. tolerate [encourage?] failure

37. Sam’s Secret #1!

38. “Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes
“Reward excellent failures. Punish mediocre successes.” Phil Daniels, Sydney exec

39. Speed/ Tempo

40. “the FedEx Economy” —headline/New York Times/10.08.05

41. “Any3”: Anything/ Anywhere/ Anytime

42. re-imagine the “value added” equation

43. $55B

44. The [NEW] “Value-added Ladder” Gamechanging Solutions/ Implemented Customer success Services/Transactions Manufactured Goods/Things Extracted Raw Materials

45. HCare CIO: “Technology Executive” (workin’ in a hospital) Or/to: Full-scale, Accountable (life or death) Member-Partner of XYZ Hospital’s Senior Healing-Services Team (who happens to be a techie)

46. “Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods
“Experiences are as distinct from services as services are from goods.” —Joe Pine & Jim Gilmore, The Experience Economy: Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage

47. HARLEY = “REBEL LIFESTYLE
HARLEY = “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-Davidson exec, Results-Based Leadership

48. The [NEW] “Value-added Ladder” spellbinding Experiences Gamechanging Solutions Services Goods Raw Materials

49. Furniture vs. Dreams “We do not sell ‘furniture’ at Domain
Furniture vs. Dreams “We do not sell ‘furniture’ at Domain. We sell dreams. This is accomplished by addressing the half-formed needs in our customers’ heads. By uncovering these needs, we, in essence, fill in the blanks. We convert ‘needs’ into ‘dreams.’ Sales are the inevitable result.” — Judy George, Domain Home Fashions

50. The [NEW] “Value-added Ladder” dreams come true spellbinding Experiences Gamechanging Solutions Services Goods Raw Materials

51. Dream Merchant: IBM

52. [totally] re-imagine the business around the two staggering “new” opportunities

53. women

54. Women’s Trifecta+. Buy/all. Wealth/all
Women’s Trifecta+ *Buy/all *Wealth/all *Lead/ better Eclipse of males/whoops

55. “Women are the majority market” —Fara Warner/The Power of the Purse

56. “She knows more about the [Volvo] than the salesman who greets her at the door. But how is she treated? As if she has a low IQ , is slightly hard of hearing , and really has no right to be buying a luxury car; and if she brought a male friend with her, odds are 10:1 that the clueless salesperson spent most of his time speaking to him .” —Selling to Men, Selling to Women, Jeffery Tobias Halter

57. “Goldman Sachs in Tokyo has developed an index of 115 companies poised to benefit from women’s increased purchasing power ; over the past decade the value of shares in Goldman’s basket has risen by 96%, against the Tokyo stockmarket’s rise of 13%.”
—Economist, 15 April 2006

58. —Headline, Economist, April 15, 2006, Leader, page 14
“Forget China, India and the Internet: Economic Growth Is Driven by Women.”
—Headline, Economist, April 15, 2006, Leader, page 14

59. “Since 1970, women have held two out of every three new jobs created
“Since 1970, women have held two out of every three new jobs created.” —FT,

60. 1. Participation rate/2 of 3 new jobs, last 30 years. 2
1. Participation rate/2 of 3 new jobs, last years. 2. Male workforce departures/SENIOR male workforce departures. 3. Shrinking pay gap/same jobs. 4. More senior positions. Greater decision- making/expenditure/organization design authority. More line jobs. 5. Female solo head-of-household growing. 6. Longevity. 7. Education. 8. More effective money management.

61. 94% of loans to … women* *Microlending; “Banker to the poor”; Grameen Bank; Muhammad Yunus; 2006 Nobel Peace Prize winner

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

63. boomers-geezers

64. 2000-2010 Stats 18-44: -1% 55+: +21% (55-64: +47%)

65. 44-65: “New Customer Majority”
44-65: “New Customer Majority” * *45% larger than 18-43; 60% larger by 2010 Source: Ageless Marketing, David Wolfe & Robert Snyder

66. Boomers’-Geezers’-Women’s Trifecta+. Buy/all. Wealth/all
Boomers’-Geezers’-Women’s Trifecta+ *Buy/all *Wealth/all *time left/ lots *Eclipse of males/retire-die

67. “People turning 50 today have more than half of their adult life ahead of them.” —Bill Novelli, 50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America

68. We become who we spend time with!

69. Measure “Strangeness”/Portfolio Quality Staff Consultants Vendors Out-sourcing Partners (#, Quality) Innovation Alliance Partners Customers Competitors (who we “benchmark” against) Strategic Initiatives Product Portfolio (LineEx v. Leap) IS/IT Projects HQ Location Lunch Mates Language Board

70. “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/Harvard Business Review

71. EXCELLENCE

72. 4/40

73. De-centralization execution accountability 6:15a.m.

74. “If if feels painful and scary—that’s real delegation” —Caspian Woods, small biz owner

75. De-centralization execution accountability 6:15a.m.

76. “Execution is the job of the business leader
“Execution is the job of the business leader.” —Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan/ Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

77. De-centralization execution accountability 6:15a.m.

78. “GE has set a standard of candor. … There is no puffery
“GE has set a standard of candor. … There is no puffery. … There isn’t an ounce of denial in the place.” —Kevin Sharer, CEO Amgen, on the “GE mystique” (Fortune)

79. De-centralization execution accountability 6:15a.m.

80. EXCELLENCE. BEDROCK. TALENT.

81. Hire very good people!

82. “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

83. INVITE THEM TO JOIN US IN A JOURNEY TO EXCELLENCE!

84. “In the end, management doesn’t change culture
“In the end, management doesn’t change culture. Management invites the workforce itself to change the culture.” —Lou Gerstner

85. “The role of the Director is to create a space where the actor or actress can become more than they’ve ever been before, more than they’ve dreamed of being.” —Robert Altman, Oscar acceptance

86. PUT HR AT THE HEAD OF THE HEAD TABLE.

87. Second: Putting HR on a par with finance and marketing.
A review of Jack and Suzy Welch’s Winning claims there are but two key differentiators that set GE “culture” apart from the herd:
First: Separating financial forecasting and performance measurement. Performance measurement based, as it usually is, on budgeting leads to an epidemic of gaming the system. GE’s performance measurement is divorced from budgeting—and instead reflects how you do relative to your past performance and relative to competitors’ performance; i.e., it’s about how you actually do in the context of what happened in the real world, not as compared to a gamed-abstract plan developed last year.
Second: Putting HR on a par with finance and marketing.

88. LIVE FOR TALENT!

89. 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

90. Brand = Talent.

91. EXCELLENCE. BEDROCK. LEADERSHIP.

92. “People want to be part of something larger than themselves
“People want to be part of something larger than themselves. They want to be part of something they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sacrifice for , trust.” —Howard Schultz, Starbucks (IBD/09.05)

93. “Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.” —Samuel Taylor Coleridge

94. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” Gandhi

95. “The First step in a ‘dramatic’ ‘organizational change program’ is obvious—dramatic personal change!” —RG

96. Relentless: “One of my superstitions had always been when I started to go anywhere or to do anything, not to turn back , or stop, until the thing intended was accomplished.” —Grant

97. “Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” —William Feather, author

98. “Leaders ‘do’ people. Period.” —Anon.

99. PURPOSE. PASSION. Presence. Personal. PERSISTENCE. PEOPLE.

100. You only find oil if you drill wells. —The Hunters, by John Masters,
Canadian O & G wildcatter

101. EXCELLE ALWAYS.