I Left My Heart in San Francisco

Uncle Vito's, San Francisco

Speaking to Taleo today—an SF-based software company that provides sophisticated stuff to abet Talent acquisition, development, productivity enhancement, and retention. E.g., it takes about $100,000 to recruit an employee, and $500,000 to find and train a replacement. (LONG and FINAL versions of slides attached.) Above and below you’ll see a couple of slices of my favorite city in the world (along with London). An “Uncle Vito’s” “restaurant” is as SF as the Golden Gate—though I can assure you that San Franciscans didn’t name the street—see the sign—after the current resident of the shack at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Below is one of the premier reasons for my love affair with San Francisco—incredible diversity; not so many cities with dispensers of the Philippine News, I’d judge.

Philippine News in a newspaper vending box

Tom Peters posted this on September 10, 2007, in Tom's Travels.