Topic Presentations
Auckland Perth MASTER
March 1, 2019
Excellence Dividend FUNDAMENTALS 12 February 2019
October 25, 2018
Excellence Dividend: Putting People (REALLY) First
October 15, 2018
Excellence Dividend, SEVEN-SLIDE SUMMARY
May 10, 2018
Excellence Dividend, KEY POINTS
May 7, 2018
The Excellence Dividend, ANNOTATED
April 23, 2018
The Works: 1966–2018
Chapter ONE: Execution/The "All-Important Last 95%"Chapter TWO: EXCELLENCE (Or Why Bother at All?)
Chapter THREE: The "Strategy First" Myth
Chapter FOUR: (REALLY) First Things Before First Things
Chapter FIVE: 34 BFOs/Blinding Flashes of the Obvious
Chapter SIX: People (REALLY!) First
Chapter SEVEN: Tech Tsunami/Software Is Eating the World
Chapter EIGHT: People First/A Moral Imperative Circa 2016
Chapter NINE: Giants Stink/Age of SMEs/Be The Best, It's the
Only Market That's Not Crowded
Chapter TEN: Innovate Or Die/W.T.T.M.S.W./Whoever Tries The Most
Stuff Wins
Chapter ELEVEN: Nine Value-Added Strategies
Chapter TWELVE: Value Added/1ST Among Equals/Design-Mindedness
Chapter THIRTEEN: The "PSF"/Professional Service Firm "Model" as Exemplar/
"Cure All"
Chapter FOURTEEN: You/Me/The "Age of 'BRAND YOU'/'Me Inc.'"
Chapter FIFTEEN: Women Are Market #1 For Everything/Women Are
the Most Effective Leaders
Chapter SIXTEEN: Leadership/46 Scattershot Tactics
Chapter SEVENTEEN: Avoid Moderation!/Pursue "Insanely Great"/Just
Say "NO!" to Normal
APPENDIX: Library of Best Quotes
January 29, 2016
Mini-Master 2016
January 28, 2016
Six Sustaining—and Very Dangerous— Myths
November 2, 2015
Innovation Is Strategy
October 25, 2015
The PSF++ Solution: Services Added
February 20, 2015
Project Leadership Excellence (originally prepared 23 Oct 2014 for PMI as a PDF, now a PPT also)
October 27, 2014
Getting Things (That Matter) Done
October 23, 2014
The 3H Theory—Lessons from Howard, Hilton, and Herb—June 2008
April 17, 2014
Thinking Out Loud
October 25, 2013
22 First Things Before First Things
October 17, 2013
Master NUMBERS
October 15, 2013
73 Big Things
October 14, 2013
Leadership Reductionist: A Self-Assessment
July 23, 2013
"Hot" Books/Recent Reading
July 11, 2013
Innovation, TEDx, Manchester Center, Vermont
July 1, 2013
Algorithms: from Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World, by Christopher Steiner
April 19, 2013
PSF, brought forward from 2007
June 11, 2012
Excellence 2-Page "Summary of Everything"
November 14, 2011
Adaptive Organization
October 15, 2011
GREAT Professional Service Firms
October 15, 2011
Meetings
June 14, 2011
The "11H Theory of Everything"
November 16, 2010
Mickey Drexler/J.Crew
October 28, 2010
The Memories That Matter
October 6, 2010
Words to the Wise
September 15, 2010
PXX
September 15, 2010
FIRST THINGS FIRST
September 15, 2010
Cause, Space, Decency
September 15, 2010
9H
September 15, 2010
New PowerPoint Stuff
August 20, 2010
The BIG Eight Courtesies (updated 28 Nov)
November 25, 2009
The Five Courtesies
November 25, 2009
Innovation 24
June 19, 2009
Quality & Excellence: The Quality 136—136 Random Thoughts on Quality, Emphasizing the Elements That Are Often Missing in Conventional Quality Programs
May 29, 2009
The Heart of Business Strategy
May 18, 2009
Shanghai: 6-Step Path to Excellence
May 5, 2009
Bhidé—The Venturesome Economy
April 21, 2009
Moving Stuff Around—Mastering the "Art of Nudgery"
April 15, 2009
Recession "Secrets" and "Strategies"
March 26, 2009
Symbolic Behavior/Smile/Respect
December 9, 2008
"Top 27"—Twenty-seven Practical Ideas That Will Transform Every Organization
December 5, 2008
The Talent 57
November 13, 2008
Tough Times: Excellence Execution
November 4, 2008
Getting Things Done MBA
November 4, 2008
The Black Swan 44: Tactical Rules for Survival (and Success) in Looney Times. (Plus 'The Basics')
October 3, 2008
The Basics
October 3, 2008
Hammergren—an addition to the Health"care" Master, slides from the book Skin in the Game by John Hammergren (CEO, McKesson) & Phil Harkins
August 15, 2008
New Old Basics, also in a PDF Version
June 11, 2008
Resilience—In people and organizations
May 19, 2008
The Customer Comes Second
May 8, 2008
Boomers-Geezers: Market Opportunity
May 2, 2008
Equations—A series of equations stating that "Success is a function of ..."
April 22, 2008
The Implementation Master
April 22, 2008
3 Cases—Implementation
April 22, 2008
Healthcare Master—Ten Years in the Making! A completely annotated slides presentation. (Updated 9 Apr 2008.)
April 9, 2008
"Top 50" "Have Yous"
March 24, 2008
Guru Gaffes—Contrasts: Guru-world vs. Real World
February 28, 2008
The Subprime Times
January 22, 2008
Implementation Lists—updated 19 Jan 2008
January 17, 2008
Beautiful Systems—I.e., Get the Grunge Out of Your Processes
January 14, 2008
PSF35—A section of the Master Presentation devoted to the PSF idea, or rather, 35 ideas
January 9, 2008
The Checklist: The Power of a "Blinding Flash of the Obvious"!
December 19, 2007
Planetree: A Radical Model for New Healthcare/Healing/Wellness Excellence (updated 30 March 2007)
December 18, 2007
The Seduction of Listening
December 11, 2007
Cross-functional Excellence—The "XF 50"
December 11, 2007
Real Achievement of Competitive Excellence, Mapping Competitive Position—A List of "Top 50" "Have Yous"
December 11, 2007
The Case for Internal Focus: "Brand Inside" Rules!
September 16, 2007
TRY It!
July 24, 2007
"The 'Rules'"
June 26, 2007
"The 'Rules'" SHORT
June 26, 2007
"The 'Rules'" VERY SHORT
June 26, 2007
Tom's Iconic Books
May 22, 2007
Project Eleanor
May 8, 2007
Boomers' Dominance
May 8, 2007
Brand Loyalty—STABILITY
May 8, 2007
Wiki WikiWorld Wikinomics
March 9, 2007
The Action Chronicles, Think vs. Do, PSF, WOW!, Grant, 4/40 (expanded and updated 3 Nov 2006)
November 3, 2006
XAlways Women—The Whole Picture (updated 3 Nov 2006)
November 3, 2006
Women-Boomers-Geezers, Short Rant
November 3, 2006
War on Linearity
October 26, 2006
Muhammad Yunus and Microlending—on the occasion of his winning the Nobel Peace Prize
October 13, 2006
Leadership: Freddy Delgado vs. Patricia Dunn
October 6, 2006
Value of Strategic Plans
October 6, 2006
Talent: Lessons from the Arts
October 6, 2006
House!—Thoughts on a TV Show!
October 6, 2006
26 Passions; 5 Damn Its
September 28, 2006
No Last Word
September 26, 2006
Dale Carnegie
September 25, 2006
Jim's Plus
September 25, 2006
The Marti & Margaret Show
September 22, 2006
Mary Oliver & Peter Drucker on Their Fellow Humans
September 22, 2006
Dell Doldrums+
September 12, 2006
Exuberance—quotes from the book by Kay Redfield Jamison
September 1, 2006
Wallop Wal*Mart Plus
September 1, 2006
Guerilla Advantage
August 4, 2006
Grant-Nelson-Boyd-Bossidy
July 26, 2006
Origins of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
July 25, 2006
Management Versus Leadership?
July 21, 2006
Ulysses S. Grant
July 18, 2006
Porter-Drucker-Bennis-Peters
July 18, 2006
"Sorry, Jack," Fortune, 24 July 2006
July 18, 2006
The Question of Scale
July 13, 2006
Them v. Us
June 27, 2006
Tom Peters' Lessons
June 27, 2006
Unilever Diversity
June 27, 2006
Innovation Tactics
June 21, 2006
Tom Peters on Action
June 21, 2006
Innovation Tactics + Action—the two above in combination
June 21, 2006
All You Need to Know (updated 21 June 2006)
June 21, 2006
Excellence Opener (updated 20 June 2006)
June 19, 2006
Excellence Always Stitched—in combination
June 19, 2006
Irreducibles209+ / Sales122 / 60 TIBs (a new combination and update 18 June 2006)
June 19, 2006
Mini Presentations—a collection of one- or few-slide ideas in one deck
June 12, 2006
The Problem Is Rarely the Problem (updated 7 June 2006)
June 6, 2006
Paul Arden: THINK THE OPPOSITE
May 31, 2006
Innovation: List Only
May 29, 2006
Innovation: A Summary Presentation
May 29, 2006
Healthcare21 Report Card
May 29, 2006
An Enron Juror on Leadership
May 27, 2006
The Work Matters: On Self-reliance, Becoming a "Change Insurgent," and the Power of Peculiarities
May 1, 2006
Healthcare Report Card
May 1, 2006
Containerization—on its 50th Anniversary
April 26, 2006
Killer Combo (updated 04.22.06)—includes "Excellence. Always." Plus "First Level Scientific Success," "All the Things You Need to Know," "Leadership23," "People Power," "Leadership2006," "The Irreducible209," and more.
April 19, 2006
Irreducibles—209 "for sure" items (updated 31 March 2006)
March 31, 2006
B-school M.I.A.
March 9, 2006
Marcus Buckingham, The One Thing You Need to Know
February 16, 2006
The "3Es"—one slide with an important message
February 15, 2006
The Cup Challenge—A collection of truths suitable for the side of a coffee mug
February 13, 2006
111 Ridiculously Obvious Thoughts on Selling (PDF—updated from "90 Thoughts" dated 24 Jan 2006)
January 31, 2006
Lists: Important Stuff
January 25, 2006
89 Ridiculously Obvious Thoughts About Selling Stuff and 90 Thoughts (PDF)
January 25, 2006
41 Favorite Quotes and 42 Quotes (PDF)
January 25, 2006
Toward Health(care) Excellence
January 23, 2006
Re-imagine! Speech—100 Words or Less
January 6, 2006
The Excellence Basics, 1982-2005
December 8, 2005
Leadership50 (revised 6 Dec 2005)
December 6, 2005
Transformational Change (updated 6 Dec 2005)
December 6, 2005
Dramatic Difference, One hour (updated 29 Nov 2005)
November 21, 2005
Dramatic Difference (updated 14 Nov 2005)
November 14, 2005
Ultimate Success Secrets
November 10, 2005
Innovate or Die, the Basecase
November 5, 2005
Innovate or Die, Long Version
November 5, 2005
Buyback, a short rant
November 4, 2005
Brand Taiwan
October 27, 2005
Lists & Lust
October 27, 2005
Small and Medium Enterprises
October 23, 2005
Healthcare Special Presentation Overview
October 23, 2005
A Bias for Action
October 17, 2005
Bossidy—wisdom from the book Execution by Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan
October 17, 2005
Tom's Base Case: Re-imagine!
October 5, 2005
PresentationExcellence, 56 Ideas/Suggestions (updated 30 Sept 2005)
September 30, 2005
Super TIB25 (TIB = This I Believe)—one slide, lots of ideas
September 29, 2005
Leadership50—All Bases (updated 29 Sept 2005)
September 26, 2005
Gleanings
Slides to accompany Tom's blog of 20 June 2005.
June 20, 2005
Steve Jobs—Stanford
Selected excerpts from Steve Jobs' commencement address at Stanford University, June 2005.
June 20, 2005
Interviewing Excellence 31
May 30, 2005
MicroPP, A Dozen New Slides
May 12, 2005
Thomas Friedman, The World Is Flat, summary
May 9, 2005
Design49
Prepared for the Better by Design Conference in Auckland, New Zealand, March 2005.
March 30, 2005
SHORT.TourD'Horizon
February 14, 2005
New Economy. New Biz Degrees.
February 2, 2005
CEOs Are Idiots19
January 26, 2005
The "PSF" Is Everything
January 13, 2005
New C-Levels
Suggestions for the sorts of "Chief" Officers we should have.
December 27, 2004
We Live In A "Brand You" World
A short riff on dealing with the Brand You Reality.
December 27, 2004
X04: Excellence Found
December 8, 2004
Beyond the "Knowledge Economy"
December 3, 2004
Pink-Florida-Littky-Enriquez
December 2, 2004
Preview2005
November 9, 2004
Peerless "Brand Inside"
November 8, 2004
Itinerant Potential Machines
November 1, 2004
Step Out ... or Get Stepped On
November 1, 2004
Leadership3—3 takes on Leadership in one
October 28, 2004
HR Master
October 26, 2004
Health Care Horrors and Hope
October 26, 2004
Short Takes 27
October 25, 2004
The Power Is the Story
October 15, 2004
SE17: Origins of Sustainable Entrepreneurship
October 10, 2004
Virginia Postrel
October 10, 2004
Power & Implementation34
September 16, 2004
Healthcare
September 16, 2004
Healthcare21
September 16, 2004
Education for the 3rd Millennium
September 16, 2004
Creativity Short Takes
September 4, 2004
Goals-Strategy (updated 12 Aug 2004)
August 12, 2004
Passion & Purpose (updated 13 July 2004)
July 13, 2004
A Passion for Passion
June 12, 2004
New Markets, a very short special presentation
March 26, 2004
Re-imagine! An Introduction to Crazy Times
March 12, 2004
Women & Boomers
February 11, 2004
Must Marketing Reads
February 8, 2004
Robert Cooper
January 11, 2004
China Roars!
January 1, 2004
T. Peters vs. J. Collins (updated 16 Mar 2004)
December 15, 2003
The Leadership11: Rate yourself! (updated 18 June 2004)
December 4, 2003
Legacy
October 15, 2003
Biz12: Successful Businesses' 12 Truths
February 26, 2003
Connect!
January 30, 2003
Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War
January 18, 2003
Women Rule!
October 9, 2002
Tom's 60TIBs (This I Believe) (updated 30 Aug 2002)
August 28, 2002
Brand Inside (updated 23 Feb 2002)
February 19, 2002
The Solutions Imperative (updated 01 Mar 2002)
January 29, 2002
The Sales25
December 18, 2001
Revolutionary Government
November 15, 2001
Self-Determination
August 17, 2001
The HR/Training Manifesto
June 18, 2001