Tom Peters’ The Passion Imperative: The Leadership 50 Campinas/26September2005

1. Tom Peters’The Passion Imperative:The Leadership50Campinas/26September2005

2. Slides at …tompeters.com

3. “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.”—General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army

4. THREE BILLION NEW CAPITALISTS—Clyde Prestowitz

5. 26m

6. 43h

7. The Leadership50

8. I. The Basic Premise.

9. 1. Leadership Is a …Mutual Discovery Process.

10. “Ninety percent of what we call ‘management’ consists of making it difficult for people to get things done.”– Peter Drucker

11. Quests!

12. 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.”

13. Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!“free to do his or her absolute best” … “allow its members to discover their greatness.”

14. Go to the peopleLive with themLearn from themLove them Start with what they know Build with what they have But with the best leadersWhen the work is done The task accomplishedThe people will say“We have done this ourselves.” Lao Tsu (700 BC)

15. 2. Leaders DECENTRALIZE!

16. “‘Decentralization’ is not a piece of paper. It’s not me. It’s either in your heart, or not.”—Brian Joffe/BIDvest

17. II. The Leadership Types.

18. 3.Great Leaders on Snorting Steeds Are Important – butGreat Talent Developers(Type I Leadership)are the Bedrock of Organizations that Perform Over the Long Haul.

19. Raided:GEPepsiCo

20. 4. But Then Again, There Are Times When This “Cult of Personality” (Type II Leadership) Stuff Actually Works!

21. “A leader is a dealer in hope.”Napoleon

22. 5. Find the “Businesspeople”!(Type III Leadership)

23. I.P.M. (Inspired Profit Mechanic)

24. 6. All Organizations Need the Golden Leadership Triangle.

25. The Golden Leadership Triangle:(1) Talent Fanatic … (2) Creator-Visionary … (3) Inspired Profit Mechanic.

26. 7. Leadership Mantra #1: IT ALL DEPENDS!

27. III. The Leadership Dance.

28. 8. Leaders …SHOWUP!

29. MBWA

30. 9.Leaders …LOVE the MESS!

31. “If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast enough.”Mario Andretti

32. 10. LeadersDO!

33. “We have a ‘strategic’ plan. It’s called doing things.”— Herb Kelleher

34. A man approached JP Morgan, held up an envelope, and said, “Sir, in my hand I hold a guaranteed formula for success, which I will gladly sell you for $25,000.”“Sir,” JP Morgan replied, “I do not know what is in the envelope, however if you show me, and I like it, I give you my word as a gentleman that I will pay you what you ask.”The man agreed to the terms, and handed over the envelope. JP Morgan opened it, and extracted a single sheet of paper. He gave it one look, a mere glance, then handed the piece of paper back to the gent.And paid him the agreed-upon $25,000.

35. 1. Every morning, write a list of the things that need to be done that day.2. Do them.Source: Hugh MacLeod/tompeters.com/NPR

36. 11. Leaders Re-do.

37. “If it works, it’s obsolete.”—Marshall McLuhan

38. 12.BUT … Leaders KnowWhen to Wait.

39. Tex Schramm: The “too hard” box!

40. 13. Leaders Are … Optimists.

41. Hackneyed but nonetheless true:LEADERS SEE CUPS AS “HALF FULL.”

42. 14. LeadersFOCUS!

43. “ToDon’t”List

44. “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

45. “Really Important Stuff”:Roger’s Rule of Three!

46. 15.Leaders … SetCLEARDESIGNSPECS.

47. Danger: S.I.O. (Strategic Initiative Overload)

48. IV. If It’s Not Broken … Break It!

49. 16.Leaders …FORGET!/Leaders …DESTROY!

50. 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