Transcript Tom Peters’ The Passion Imperative: The Leadership50 Campinas/26September2005 Slides at … tompeters.com “If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” —General Eric Shinseki, Chief of.

Tom Peters’
The Passion Imperative:
The Leadership50
Campinas/26September2005
Slides at …
tompeters.com
“If you don’t like
change, you’re
going to like
irrelevance even
less.”
—General Eric Shinseki, Chief of Staff. U. S. Army
THREE BILLION
NEW
CAPITALISTS
—Clyde Prestowitz
m
h
The
Leadership
50
I. The Basic
Premise.
1. Leadership Is a …
Mutual
Discovery
Process.
“Ninety percent of what
we call ‘management’
consists of making it
difficult for people to
get things done.” – Peter Drucker
Quests!
Organizing Genius / Warren Bennis
and Patricia Ward Biederman
“Groups become great only when
everyone in them, leaders and
members alike, is free to do his or
her absolute best.”
“The best thing a leader can do for a
Great Group is to allow its
members to discover their
greatness.”
Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“free to do his or her
absolute best” …
“allow its members
to discover their
greatness.”
Go to the people
Live with them
Learn from them
Love them
Start with what they know
Build with what they have
But with the best leaders
When the work is done
The task accomplished
The people will say
“We have done this ourselves.”
Lao Tsu (700 BC)
2. Leaders
DECENTRALIZE!
“‘Decentralization’
is not a piece of
paper. It’s not me.
It’s either in your
heart, or not.” —
Brian Joffe/BIDvest
II. The
Leadership
Types.
3. Great Leaders on Snorting
Steeds Are Important – but
Great Talent
Developers (Type I
Leadership) are the Bedrock
of Organizations that Perform Over
the Long Haul.
Raided:
GE
PepsiCo
4. But Then Again, There
Are Times When This
“Cult of Personality”
(Type II Leadership) Stuff
Actually Works!
“A leader is a
dealer in
hope.”
Napoleon
5. Find the
“Businesspeople”!
(Type III Leadership)
I.P.M.
(Inspired Profit
Mechanic)
6. All Organizations
Need the Golden
Leadership
Triangle.
The Golden Leadership
(1) Talent
Fanatic … (2) CreatorVisionary …
(3) Inspired Profit
Mechanic.
Triangle:
7. Leadership Mantra
#1: IT
ALL
DEPENDS!
III. The
Leadership
Dance.
8. Leaders …
SHOW UP!
MBWA
9. Leaders …
LOVE the
MESS!
“If things seem
under control,
you’re just not
going
fast enough.”
Mario Andretti
10. Leaders
“We have a
‘strategic’ plan.
It’s called doing
things.”
— Herb Kelleher
A man approached JP Morgan, held up an envelope, and said,
“Sir, in my hand I hold a guaranteed formula for success, which I
will gladly sell you for $25,000.”
“Sir,” JP Morgan replied, “I do not know what is in the envelope,
however if you show me, and I like it, I give you my word as a
gentleman that I will pay you what you ask.”
The man agreed to the terms, and handed over the envelope. JP
Morgan opened it, and extracted a single sheet of paper. He gave
it one look, a mere glance, then handed the piece of paper back
to the gent.
And paid him the
agreed-upon $25,000.
1. Every morning, write a list
of the things that need to
be done that day.
2. Do them.
Source: Hugh MacLeod/tompeters.com/NPR
11. Leaders
Re
-do.
“If it works,
it’s obsolete.”
—Marshall McLuhan
12. BUT … Leaders
Know When to
Wait.
Tex Schramm:
The
“too hard”
box!
13. Leaders Are …
Optimists.
Hackneyed but nonetheless
LEADERS SEE
CUPS AS “HALF
FULL.”
true:
14. Leaders
FOCUS!
“To
Don’t ”
List
“I used to have a rule for myself that at any
point in time I wanted to have in mind — as
it so happens, also in writing, on a little card
I carried around with me — the three big
things I was trying to get done.
Three.
Not two.
Not four. Not five. Not ten. Three.”
— Richard Haass, The Power to Persuade
“Really Important
Stuff”: Roger’s
Rule of Three!
15. Leaders …
Set CLEAR
DESIGN SPECS.
Danger:
S.I.O.
(Strategic
Initiative Overload)
IV. If It’s Not
Broken …
Break It!
16. Leaders …
FORGET!/
Leaders …
DESTROY!
Forget>“Learn”
“The problem is never how
to get new, innovative
thoughts into your mind,
but how to get the old
ones out.”
Dee Hock
17. Leaders
Are Not
COPYCATS
“The short road
to ruin is to
emulate the
methods of your
adversary.”
— Winston Churchill
“This is an essay about what it takes to create and sell something remarkable. It is a
plea for originality, passion, guts and daring. You can’t be remarkable by following
someone else who’s remarkable. One way to figure out a theory is to look at what’s
working in the real world and determine what the successes have in common. But
what could the Four Seasons and Motel 6 possibly have in common? Or NeimanMarcus and Wal*Mart? Or Nokia (bringing out new hardware every 30 days or so) and
Nintendo (marketing the same Game Boy 14 years in a row)? It’s like trying to drive
The thing that all these
companies have in common is that
they have nothing in common. They are
looking in the rearview mirror.
outliers. They’re on the fringes. Superfast or superslow. Very exclusive or very
cheap. Extremely big or extremely small. The reason it’s so hard to follow the leader
is this: The leader is the leader precisely because he did something remarkable. And
that remarkable thing is now taken—so it’s no longer remarkable when you decide to
do it.” —Seth Godin, Fast Company/02.2003
18. BUT … Leaders
Have to Deliver, So They
Worry About “Throwing
the Baby Out with the
Bathwater.”
“Damned If You
Do, Damned If You
Don’t, Just Plain
Damned.”
Subtitle in the chapter, “Own Up to the Great Paradox: Success
Is the Product of Deep Grooves/ Deep Grooves Destroy
Adaptivity,” Liberation Management (1992)
19. Leaders Make
[Lotsa] Mistakes –
and MAKE NO BONES
ABOUT IT!
“Fail faster.
Succeed
sooner.”
David Kelley/IDEO
Fail.
Forward.
Fast.
–High-tech Exec
20. Leaders Make …
BIG MISTAKES!
“Reward
excellent
failures. Punish
mediocre successes.”
Phil Daniels, Sydney exec (and, de facto, Jack)
V. Create.
21. Leaders Put
INNOVATION
First!
“A focus on cost-cutting and efficiency has
helped many organizations weather the
downturn, but this approach will ultimately
Only the
constant pursuit of
innovation can ensure
long-term success.” —Daniel
render them obsolete.
Muzyka, Dean, Sauder School of Business, Univ of British
Columbia (FT/09.17.04)
Top Line, Anyone?
Point (Advertising Age), to Phil Kotler: “Who should
the CMO [Chief Marketing Officer]
report to?”
Kotler: “Maybe a
Chief Revenue
Officer—the cost side has been
squeezed, now companies have to focus
on top-line growth—or maybe a
Customer Officer.
Chief
(TP: Or maybe both!)
C
*Chief
O*
Revenue
Officer
“Not a single company that
qualified as having made a
sustained transformation
ignited its leap with a big
acquisition or merger. Moreover,
comparison companies—those that failed to make a
leap or, if they did, failed to sustain it—often tried to
make themselves great with a big acquisition or
merger. They failed to grasp the simple truth that
while you can buy your way to growth, you cannot
buy your way to greatness.” —Jim Collins/Time/11.29.04
“Acquisitions are about
buying market share. Our
challenge is to
create markets.
There is a big difference.”
Peter Job, CEO, Reuters
“[Other]
admirals more
frightened of
losing than
anxious to win”
Nelson’s secret:
22. Leaders … Make
Their Mark /
Leaders … Do Stuff
That Matters
Legacy!
“I never, ever thought of
myself as a businessman.
I was interested in
creating things
I would be
proud of.” —Richard Branson
“Management has a lot to do with
answers. Leadership is a function of
questions. And the first question for
‘Who
do we intend to
be?’ Not ‘What are we going to
a leader always is:
do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’”
—Max De Pree, Herman Miller
Ah, kids: “What is your vision for the
future?” “What have you
accomplished since your first book?”
“Close your eyes and imagine me
immediately doing something
about what you’ve just said. What
would it be?” “Do you feel you have
an obligation to ‘Make the world a
better place’?”
23. Leaders Push Their
W-a-y Up the
Value-added/
Intellectual Capital
Chain
Organizations
And the “M” Stands for … ?
“Systems
Integrator of
choice.”
Gerstner’s IBM:
(BW)
IBM Global Services:
$55B
24. Leaders Turn
Every “Department”
into a
Value-adding “PSF”!*
*Professional Service Firm
“ ‘Disintermediation’ is overrated. Those who fear
disintermediation should in fact be afraid of
disintermediation is
just another way of saying
that you’ve become
irrelevant to your
customers.”
irrelevance—
—John Battelle/Point/Advertising Age/07.05
Sarah:
Mom:
“ Mom, what do
you do?”
“I’m ‘overhead.’ ”
Sarah:
Mom:
“ Mom, what do
you do?”
“I manage a
‘cost center.’ ”
Answer: PSF!
[Professional Service Firm]
Department Head
to …
Managing Partner,
HR [IS, R&D,etc.] Inc.
Point of
View!
Not “out sourcing”
Not “off shoring”
Not “near shoring”
Not “in sourcing”
but …
“Best Sourcing”
25. Leaders Know that the
“HVA/Solutions Revolution”
rests upon: Scintillating
Experiences.
“Experiences are as
distinct from services
as services are from
goods.”
Joseph Pine & James Gilmore, The Experience Economy:
Work Is Theatre & Every Business a Stage
Experience: “Rebel Lifestyle!”
“What we sell is the ability for
a 43-year-old accountant to
dress in black leather, ride
through small towns and have
people be afraid of him.”
Harley exec, quoted in Results-Based Leadership
One company’s answer:
C
*Chief e
O*
Xperience Officer
26. Leaders Pursue
the “Big Two” NEW
MARKET
OPPORTUNITIES
Women!
“Kodak Sharpens Digital
Focus On Its Best
Customers:
Women”*
—Page 1 Headline/WSJ/0705
*TP: The …
“Big Duh”!
?????????
Home Furnishings … 94%
Vacations … 92% (Adventure Travel … 70%/ $55B travel equipment)
Houses … 91%
D.I.Y. (major “home projects”) … 80%
Consumer Electronics … 51% (66% home computers)
Cars … 68% (90%)
All consumer purchases … 83%
Bank Account … 89%
Household investment decisions … 67%
Small business loans/biz starts … 70%
Health Care … 80%
Thanks,
Marti
Barletta!
The Perfect Answer
Jill and Jack buy
slacks in black…
1. Men and women are different.
2. Very different.
3. VERY, VERY DIFFERENT.
4. Women & Men have a-b-s-o-l-u-t-e-l-y
nothing in common.
5. Women buy lotsa stuff.
6. WOMEN BUY A-L-L THE STUFF.
7. Women’s Market = Opportunity No. 1.
8. Men are (STILL) in charge.
9. MEN ARE … TOTALLY, HOPELESSLY
CLUELESS ABOUT WOMEN.
10. Women’s Market = Opportunity No. 1.
BoomersGeezers
2000-2010 Stats
18-44: -1%
55+: +21%
(55-64: +47%)
“Marketers attempts at
reaching those over 50 have
been miserably
unsuccessful. No market’s
motivations and needs are
so poorly understood.”
—Peter
Francese, founding publisher, American Demographics
27. Leaders Pursue
DRAMATIC
DIFFERENCE!
Brand = You Must Care!
“Success means never
letting the competition
define you. Instead you
have to define yourself based
on a point of view you care
deeply about.” —Tom Chappell, Tom’s of Maine
GH (+TP):
“Get better”
vs
“Get different”
28. Leaders
LOVE the
New Technology!
We all live in
Dell-Wal*MarteBay-Google
World!
Power Tools
for Power
Solutions/
Strategies!
—TP
29. Needed? Type IV
Leadership:
Technology
Dreamer-True
Believer
The Golden Leadership
Quadrangle: (1) Talent FanaticMentor … (2) Creator-Visionary …
(3) Inspired Profit Mechanic …
(4) Technology
Dreamer-True Believer
VI. Talent.
30. When It Comes to
TALENT …
Leaders Always Go
Berserk!
From “1, 2 or you’re out” [JW]
to …
“Best Talent in each
industry segment to build
best proprietary
intangibles” [EM]
Source: Ed Michaels, War for Talent (05.17.00)
Brand =
Talent.
31. Leaders
Hire WEIRD
Employees: “Are there
enough weird
people in the lab these
days?”
V. Chmn., pharmaceutical house, to a lab director
Why Do I love Freaks?
(1) Because when Anything Interesting happens … it was a freak
who did it. (Period.)
(2) Freaks are fun. (Freaks are also a pain.) (Freaks are never
boring.)
(3) We need freaks. Especially in freaky times. (Hint: These are
freaky times, for you & me & the CIA & the Army & Avon.)
(4) A critical mass of freaks-in-our-midst automatically make uswho-are-not-so-freaky at least somewhat more freaky. (Which is
a Good Thing in freaky times—see immediately above.)
(5) Freaks are the only (ONLY) ones who succeed—as in, make it
into the history books.
(6) Freaks keep us from falling into ruts. (If we listen to them.)
(We seldom listen to them.) (Which is why most of us—and our
organizations—are in ruts. Make that chasms.)
32. Leaders Don’t
Create “Followers”:
THEY CREATE
LEADERS!
“I start with the
premise that the
function of leadership
is to produce more
leaders, not more
followers.” —Ralph Nader
“AS LEADERS, WOMEN
RULE: New Studies find
that female managers
outshine their male
counterparts in almost every
measure”
Title, Special Report, Business Week
Women’s Strengths Match New Economy
Imperatives: Link [rather than rank] workers;
favor interactive-collaborative leadership style
[empowerment beats top-down decision making];
sustain fruitful collaborations; comfortable with
sharing information; see redistribution of power
as victory, not surrender; favor multi-dimensional
feedback; value technical & interpersonal skills,
individual & group contributions equally; readily
accept ambiguity; honor intuition as well as pure
“rationality”; inherently flexible; appreciate
cultural diversity.
Source: Judy B. Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret
33. Leaders Demand
That All Employees
Follow the “BRAND
YOU” ADVENTURE
“We live in a
‘Brand You’
world.”
—Tom Peters
“If there is nothing
very special about
your work, no matter how
hard you apply yourself you
won’t get noticed, and that
increasingly means you won’t get
paid much either.”
Michael Goldhaber, Wired
“You are the
storyteller of your
own life, and you
can create your own
legend or not.”
Isabel Allende
VII. Passion.
34. Leaders …
“Sell”
PASSION!
“Create a
‘cause,’ not
a ‘business.’ ”
G.H.:
35. Leaders Know:
ENTHUSIASM
BEGETS
ENTHUSIASM!
BZ: “I am a …
Dispenser of
Enthusiasm!”
“Most important,
he upped the
energy level
at Motorola.”
—Fortune on Ed Zander/08.05
“Before you can inspire with
emotion, you must be
swamped with it yourself.
Before you can move their
tears, your own must flow. To
convince them, you must
yourself believe.” —Winston Churchill
“A man without
a smiling face
must not open a
shop.”
—Chinese Proverb*
*Courtesy Tom Morris, The Art of Achievement
36. Leaders Are …
in a Hurry
37. Leaders
Focus on the
SOFT STUFF!
“Soft” Is
“Hard”
- ISOE
VIII. The “Job”
of Leading.
38.
Leaders Know It’s
ALL SALES ALL
THE TIME.
If you don’t LOVE
SALES … find
another life. (Don’t pretend
TP:
you’re a “leader.”) (See TP’s
The Project50.)
39. Leaders
LOVE
“POLITICS.”
If you don’t LOVE
POLITICS … find
another life. (Don’t pretend
TP:
you’re a “leader.”)
40. Leaders
Give …
RESPECT!
“It was much later that I realized Dad’s
secret. He gained respect by giving it. He
talked and listened to the fourth-grade kids
in Spring Valley who shined shoes the
same way he talked and listened to a
bishop or a college president. He
was
seriously interested in who you
were and what you had to say.”
Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, Respect
41. Leaders Say
“Thank
You.”
“The deepest human
need to
be appreciated.”
need is the
William James
42. Leadership
Is a …
Performance.
“It is necessary for the
President to be the
No. 1
actor.”
nation’s
FDR
43. Leaders …
GREAT
STORY!
Have a
“A key – perhaps the key –
to leadership is
the effective
communication
of a story.”
Howard Gardner, Leading Minds: An Anatomy of Leadership
Leader Job 1
Paint
Portraits of
Excellence!
44. Leaders … Are
The Brand
be
“You must
the change you
wish to see in
the world.”
Gandhi
“To change minds
effectively, leaders make
particular use
of two tools: the stories
that they tell and
the lives that they
lead.” —Howard Gardner, Changing Minds
IX. Introspection.
45.
Leaders …
ENJOY
LEADING.
“Warren, I know you
want to ‘be’
president. But do
you want to ‘do’
president?”
46. Leaders
LAUGH!
47. Leaders …
KNOW
THEMSELVES.
Step #1:
Buy a
Mirror!
“The First step in a
‘dramatic’ ‘organizational
change program’ is
obvious—dramatic
personal change!” —LH/RG/??
48. But … Leaders
have
MENTORS.
Upon
having the Leadership
Mantle placed upon one’s
head, he/she shall never
hear the unvarnished
truth again!*
The Word According to TP:
(*Therefore, she/he needs one faithful
compatriot to lay it on with no jelly.)
49. Leaders …
Take Breaks.
X. The End
Game.
50. Leaders Free
the Lunatic
Within!
The greatest danger
for most of us
is not that our aim is
too high
and we miss it,
but that it is
too low
and we reach it.
Michelangelo
Kevin Roberts’ Credo
1. Ready. Fire! Aim.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
If it ain’t broke ... Break it!
Hire crazies.
Ask dumb questions.
Pursue failure.
Lead, follow ... or get out of the way!
Spread confusion.
Ditch your office.
Read odd stuff.
10. Avoid moderation!
“You can’t behave
in a calm, rational
manner. You’ve got
to be out there on
the lunatic fringe.”
— Jack Welch
51. Leaders
(and Management Gurus)
WHEN TO
LEAVE!
Know
“In classical times when
Cicero had finished
speaking, the people said,
‘How well he spoke,’ but when
Demosthenes had finished
speaking, they said,
us march.’”
‘Let
—Adlai Stevenson
Let us
march