Archives: February 2014

You Take the Wheel …

We can barely contain ourselves. The tompeters.com redesign is launching next week and we’re excited to share it with you!

Our goal is to put you in the driver’s seat, so to speak. One of the new features will allow you to browse Tom’s ideas by topic. So if you’re a Brand You fanatic, all his best pieces on Brand You (videos, manifestos, articles, audio, etc.) will be instantly at your fingertips, hand-picked by the staff that know his work better than he does.

Hang in there … we’re just polishing things up. Putting the final shine on it, if you will. We’ll hand you the keys next week!

Excellence. No Excuses!

What started when Tom copied a few Twitter conversations and made them into a PDF has turned into a magnum opus. Now 57 parts, his “Excellence. NO EXCUSES.” has been posted here before with the title “Some Stuff.” As he points out (p.21), “Most of our conscious life will be at work. Like it or not. Waste your work life and you have effectively wasted your life.” Why not make that time at work and its product Excellent? Download the PDF (updated 03.06) and choose a few of these 57 ways to make your work-life-output Excellent now.

Sharing Our Love

We’re huge fans of Kevin Roberts’ Lovemarks and Tim Sanders’ Love Is the Killer App. In the same vein, we want to give a little love back to you. We’ll let you in on our little (BIG) secret: we’ve overhauled the entire tompeters.com website. In three weeks, we’ll be launching an completely new site.

Same Tom. Same game-changing ideas. Totally new ways to find the inspiration you crave.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

Allies,
NOT Enemies

I have recently written a 172-page manuscript, inspired by several tweetstreams. Not sure whether or not it was a single tweet or something else that got me going, but get me going it did!

I am, in short, appalled by most of the “change management” literature. In a word, it’s 99% (or so it feels) negative.

“Overcoming resistance to change.”
“Dealing with objections.”
“Vanguishing foes.”
Etc.
Etc.

In a word: RUBBISH!

The change process need not be negative. Indeed, when it is, it is rarely or ever successful.

The issue and opportunity, briefly addressed here, is the recruitment and nurturing of … ALLIES.

My message:

Forget ENEMIES.
Make FRIENDS.

Action!
#1: 1982
#1: 2014

An old topic from me. Yet always new. That is, ripe for improvement or at least monitoring. Namely “A Bias For Action.” The #1 of eight “Basics of Excellence” from In Search of Excellence in 1982. And even more important today as the pace of change accelerates. This is less about “ideas to implement” than about a cultural trait that must be instilled and assiduously maintained.

PDF: New Action Summary