Archive for March 12th, 2008

March 12, 2008

[Tom Peters] Women get it

Relationships are the hardest part… It sounds like a Celine Dion song, but Tom Peters, speaking live in Midrand today, 12 March 2008, emphasises that relationships are the hardest and most essential part of successful business, not the number crunching or plans. And women get it, he says, better than men.
Men are only useful for [...]

March 12, 2008

[Tom Peters] Motivate is a disgusting word

And hang him by his toes if he ever uses it, says Tom Peters! Quoting some famous sports coach on motivation, who says his players arrive motivated and he does his best to not beat the tar out of them and DEMOTIVATE them, Peters advised that we need to do the same in the workplace.
The [...]

March 12, 2008

[Tom Peters] Be afraid. Be very afraid.

“Do one thing every day that scares you,” said Eleanor Roosevelt. That is at the heart of innovation, says leadership/management guru Tom Peters. The indefatigable Tom Peters is back in South Africa for what is his third or fourth visit so far, and as usual, the event venue in Midrand from which I am blogging [...]