Archives: October 2017

Tom Is to Receive the Thinkers50 Lifetime Achievement Award

Tom has been recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award from Thinkers50. He will receive the award at a gala in London on 13 November. Thinkers50 is an organization that ranks management thinkers and offers support, training, and development assistance to those who seek help improving their own business. Its founders, Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove, are authors of many popular books and editors of the Financial Times Handbook of Management. They started the Thinkers50 list in 2001 to highlight the work of influential business thought leaders. Tom is thrilled to have his lifetime work recognized with this honor. Read the whole story here.

Richard Thaler Won the Nobel Prize in Economics

Our Cool Friend Richard Thaler was awarded a Nobel prize! We applaud him and his work in Behavioral Economics, a field he is considered by many to have invented. We interviewed him back in 2008, soon after his book Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness, written with Cass Sunstein (a lawyer), was first published. The nub is that you may think you’re making rational financial decisions, but maybe you’re not. To get an idea of what his work is about, you can read our Cool Friend interview, or this article from the Economist, which describes the theory simply and completely. Congratulations to Richard Thaler from Tom and all of us here at tompeters.com!

BBC Two

There’s an opportunity for our readers in the UK to see Tom on BBC Two, tonight, 11 October 2017, at 8:00 p.m. Due to rights issues, the BBC iPlayer works in the UK only. Here’s the link.

The BBC Two series to which Tom contributed is on the subject of Work. He thoroughly enjoyed his time with the uber-professional crew from this show. Jacques Peretti and Edmund Moriarty were incredibly well-versed in the workplace issues and business culture of the ’80s, thereby sparking Tom’s insights from the days of In Search of Excellence.

In general, the series explores how we got to this place where work infringes on all places and times of our lives. Check it out!