The Tom Peters Weblog: Execution

The Little BIG Things Synopsis Series #24 Change#25 Charlie Wilson's War

2010-12-13T10:11:28-05:00

It's time for two new sections in The Little BIG Things Synopsis Series. The next two sections in The Little...

The Little BIG Things Synopsis Series #19 Equations

2010-11-15T15:30:40-05:00

It's time for a new section in The Little BIG Things Synopsis Series. The next section in The Little BIG...

The Little BIG Things Synopsis Series #7 Recession46#8 Self

2010-09-28T09:22:18-05:00

It's time for two new sections in The Little BIG Things Synopsis Series. The next two sections in The Little...

Practice

2009-12-22T07:40:34-05:00

A commenter named Norman Wei recently asked Cathy if Tom rehearsed repeatedly before getting in front of the camera for...

My Kinda Guy!

2009-10-05T08:09:54-05:00

Several Sunday papers reviewed Neil Sheehan's A Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon. It's...

Mary Pennington, Ignaz Semmelweis,And the "Last 98%"

2009-06-29T12:15:19-05:00

Mary Pennington, IBD tells us (June 22), was known as the "Ice Lady." The Philadelphian saved countless lives via her...

Power Tools!

2009-04-15T05:15:06-05:00

I've been hounding you on this topic for a while now. My mostly dormant but longtime interest in "little things"...

"Welcome" Back!

2008-11-05T06:20:00-05:00

Election is done. (As I write this I don't know the result—and it's irrelevant to this Post.) Time to get...

Percy's Gang of 125: How Curved Is the Earth??? It's A Small World, After All ???

2008-11-05T06:19:00-05:00

Percy Barnevik was Europe's exemplar businessman for much of the '80s and '90s. He woke up a sleepy ABB Asea...

Spontaneous Discovery: F.A. Hayek, U.S. Grant, Herb Kelleher, and I

2008-09-09T16:21:31-05:00

Below you will find a link to a new presentation. This one ("Excellence. Always. Action."), which will also become...

See How Simple What You Cannot Do Is: The 240% Factor!

2008-06-24T11:10:59-05:00

Woody Allen's "Eighty percent of success is showing up" was the topic of a recent Post. One great comment (Rob)...

Eighty Percent of Success Is Showing Up

2008-06-18T12:30:25-05:00

While editing and fact-checking my latest Master presentation, Cathy came across "90% of success is showing up"—and it didn't ring...

Seven Billion Experts—Waiting to Be Heard!

2008-06-09T08:00:30-05:00

William Easterly wrote in the Financial Times on 29 May: "The report of the World Bank Growth Commission, led by...

Implementation2008

2008-01-07T06:38:46-05:00

Tom has stitched together several lists from recent Blogs and other sources to create an 9,000-word document, provided here in...

Against All Odds: So What?

2007-10-08T12:16:25-05:00

Columbus, whose astonishing accomplishment we Americans are celebrating today, was a loooooooooong shot—and he brought home a winner. My dearly...

Tom Topic #1

2007-06-26T14:10:20-05:00

It's all about tryin' stuff. It's all about experimentation. It's all about getting' on with getting' on. Which means it's...

Quote of the Day

2007-02-20T09:13:24-05:00

"Costco figured out the big, simple things—and executed with total fanaticism."—Charles Munger, Berkshire Hathaway (Barron's, 12 Feb)...

Tom Wears Them Out in SF

2007-01-21T17:57:50-05:00

Our Cool Friend Robert Scoble was in the audience at the Inc. event and met Tom for the first time...

Arthur MacArthur and the Modern Day "Policy Wonks"

2006-12-19T08:15:27-05:00

Forget the assignment of blame for the Iraq fiasco. That's not the point of this Post. Instead it is my...

Blocking & Tackling

2006-10-12T20:44:53-05:00

People are always looking for a silver bullet to help their businesses. Silver bullets can be great, but so often...

Norman's World

2006-07-26T08:11:42-05:00

Did you know that Leon Leonwood Bean (L.L.Bean) had turned over the reins to his nephew? That nephew: Norman Ignatius...

Revision!

2006-07-26T08:09:12-05:00

My special presentation ... "Grant" has been superseded. The new one: "Grant-Nelson-Boyd-Bossidy." Or: Lessons from the masters of "Bias for...

First Things First! Period!

2006-07-21T08:18:57-05:00

Or: Don't Overlook the "Missing Ninety-eight Percent"! Time to come out of the closet! I care! (I'm right.) (I'm pretty...

More Grant

2006-07-19T10:08:10-05:00

Another Comment worth lifting! Richard Cauley added this absolutely fabulous Grant quote to my "U.S. Grant" file: "The art of...

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