The Passion Imperative: The Leadership 50 Tom Peters/American Express/ 06.08.2004/San Francisco.
Transcript of The Passion Imperative: The Leadership 50 Tom Peters/American Express/ 06.08.2004/San Francisco.
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The Passion Imperative:
The Leadership50Tom Peters/American Express/
06.08.2004/San Francisco
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Slides at …
tompeters.com
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Biases
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Strategy Systems Passion Execution Porter 50 20 15 15
Drucker 35 30 15 20
Bennis 25 20 30 25
Peters 15 20 35 30
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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 BS 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 the power of a Good Story (Brand Power).
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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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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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The Passion Imperative:
The Leadership50
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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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Mount Madness v.2004
Perfect Storm
X
Corporate Mal-adaptivity
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The Perfect StormJobs
TechnologyGlobalization
War, Warfighting & Security
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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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Jeff Immelt: 75% of “admin, back room, finance” “digitalized” in
3 years.
Source: BW (01.28.02)
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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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“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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Mount Madness v.2004
Perfect Storm
X
Corporate Mal-adaptivity
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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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Mount Madness v.2004
Perfect Storm
X
Corporate Mal-adaptivity
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The Basic Premise.
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1. Leadership Is a …
Mutual Discovery Process.
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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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“I don’t know.”
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Quests!
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Leaders-Mentors-Teachers Do Not “Transform People”!
Instead leaders-mentors-teachers (1) provide a context which is marked by (2) access to a luxuriant portfolio of meaningful opportunities (projects) which
(3) allow people to fully (and safely, mostly—caveat: “they”
don’t engage unless they’re “mad about something”) express their innate curiosity and (4) engage in a vigorous
discovery voyage (alone and in small teams, assisted by an
extensive self-constructed network) by which those people (5) go to-create places they (and their mentors-teachers-
leaders) had never dreamed existed—and then the leaders-mentors-teachers (6) applaud like hell, stage
“photo-ops,” and ring the church bells 100 times to commemorate the bravery of their
“followers’ ” explorations!
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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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T.A.: 3
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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) Talent
Fanatic-Mentor … (2) Creator-Visionary … (3)
Inspired Profit Mechanic.
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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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33 Division Titles. 26 League Pennants. 14
World Series: Earl Weaver—0. Tom Kelly—0. Jim Leyland—0.
Walter Alston—1AB. Tony LaRussa—132 games, 6 seasons. Tommy Lasorda—P, 26 games. Sparky
Anderson—1 season.
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The Leadership
Dance.
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8. Leaders …
SHOW UP!
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Rudy!
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9. Leaders … LOVE the
MESS!
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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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“We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.” — Herb Kelleher
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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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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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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. BUT … Leaders Are
Realists/Leaders Win Through LOGISTICS!
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The “Gus Imperative”!
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15. Leaders …
DELIVER!
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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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“When assessing candidates, the first thing I looked for was energy and
enthusiasm for execution. Does she talk about the thrill of getting things
done, the obstacles overcome, the role her people played—or does she keep
wandering back to strategy or philosophy?” —Larry Bossidy,
Honeywell/AlliedSignal, in Execution
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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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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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Therefore …
Leadership = Art
Therefore …
MBA = Useless
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15 “Leading” Biz Schools
Design/Core: 0Design/Elective: 1Creativity/Core: 0
Creativity/Elective: 4Innovation/Core: 0
Innovation/Elective: 6
Source: DMI/Summer 2002
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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 is not afraid to
fail.”
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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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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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“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the
first question for a leader always is: ‘Who do we
intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do
we intend to be?’” —Max De Pree, Herman Miller
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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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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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“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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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) Talent
Fanatic-Mentor … (2) Creator-Visionary …
(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 Always Swing
for the Fences!
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Talent’s Big7 Rules
1. Talent = 25/8/53. 2. Some people are better than other people. Some people are a helluva lot better than other people.3. Women are the best leaders for the New Economy4. Think “Roster”5. Think “V.C.”6. Talent is what leaders do. 7. Talent = Brand
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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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“I didn’t have a ‘mission statement’ at Burger King. I had a dream. Very
simple. It was something like, ‘Burger King is 250,000 people, every one of
whom gives a shit.’ Every one. Accounting. Systems. Not just the drive through. Everyone is ‘in the brand.’ That’s what we’re talking
about, nothing less.”— Barry Gibbons
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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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Aside
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Jim & Tom. Joined at the
hip. Not.
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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 …
CitiGroup … American Express … American Express …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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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 (TP: scribble: “Nelson, Wellington, Montgomery, Disraeli, Churchill, Thatcher”)
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WellingtonNelsonDisraeliChurchill
MontgomeryThatcher
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Huh?
“Quiet, workmanlike, stoic leaders bring about the big
transformations.”--JC
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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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“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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“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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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
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34. Leaders Are …
in a Hurry
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The Urgency Factor: LEADERS … have a distorted
sense of time. (E.g.:
Rummy thinks he asked months ago … it was the day before yesterday.)
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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 you’re not pissing people off, 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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“Ph.D. in leadership. Short course: Make a short list of all
things done to you that you abhorred. Don’t do them to
others. Ever. Make another list of things done to you that you
loved. Do them to others. Always.”
— Dee Hock
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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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“We look for ...
“... listening, caring, smiling, saying ‘Thank
you,’ being warm.”— Colleen Barrett, President, Southwest Airlines
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41. Leaders Are …
Curious.
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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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“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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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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“Hire smart – go bonkers – have grace – make mistakes – love technology – start all
over again.”
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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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T. J. Peters T. J. Peters 1942 – 2---1942 – 2---
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!
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T. J. Peters T. J. Peters 1942 – 2---1942 – 2---
HE WAS A PLAYER!HE WAS A PLAYER!
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“If you ask me what I have come to do in
this world, I who am an artist, I will reply: I am here to live my life out loud.” — Émile Zola