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Lessons in Leadership:Tom Peters SeminarM3
Rollercoaster Days: Learning to …
Rock & Roll!Nashville 04.19.2001
More at … tompeters.comSlides from this seminar;
Master Presentation, for in-depth; annotated Special Presentations
[Women Rule!, Design!, etc.].“Cool Friends” (referenced in seminar).
Discussions re this stuff.Calendar of events.
Lavender text in this file is a link.
“There will be more confusion in the business world in the next decade than in any decade in history.
And the current pace of change will only accelerate.”
Steve Case
“In 25 years, you’ll probably be able to get the
sum total of all human knowledge on a personal
device.”Greg Blonder, VC [was Chief Technical
Adviser for Corporate Strategy @ AT&T] [Barron’s 11.13.2000]
<1000A.D.: paradigm shift: 1000s of years1000: 100 years for paradigm shift
1800s: > prior 900 years1900s: 1st 20 years > 1800s
2000: 10 years for paradigm shift 21st century: 1000X tech change than 20th
century (“the ‘Singularity,’ a merger between humans and computers that is so rapid and profound it represents a rupture
in the fabric of human history”)
Ray Kurzweil, talk april2001
“The corporation as we know it, which is now 120 years old, is
not likely to survive the next 25 years. Legally and
financially, yes, but not structurally and economically.”
Peter Drucker, Business 2.0 (08.00)
TP: “So nobody really knows what they’re doing?” CL: “Pretty much
right.” TP: “Will this channel cannibalize that? WHO KNOWS?”
CL: “Right.” TP: “So?” CL: “Well, you just gotta cut the crap,
and try something. And see what happens. Don’t form a ‘Debating
Society.’ ” TP: “Amen!”
John Roth’s “Rules” [Nortel]
1. Our strategies must be tied to leading-edge customers on the attack.
2. Time cannot be sacrificed for better quality, lower cost, or even better decisions.
3. It doesn’t matter whether you develop or acquire leading technology. Our job is to provide the technology
and products our customers need.4. Success is achieved by leading change,
not waiting for it.5. We are paranoid about our leadership – willing to cannibalize our own products to maintain our edge.
Source: Abridged from The Wall Street Journal (07.25.00)
“Our strategies must be tied to leading edge customers on the
attack. If we focus on the defensive customers, we
will also become defensive.”
John Roth, CEO, Nortel
“It used to be that the big
ate the small. Now the fast eat the slow.”Geoff Yang, IVP/ (Institutional
Venture Partners)
CEOs appointed after 1985 are 3X more likely to be fired than CEOs
appointed before 1985
34% of F100 companies have replaced their CEOs since 1995
Warren Bennis, MIT Sloan Management Review
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
“When asked to name just one big merger that had lived up to expectations, Leon
Cooperman, former cochairman of Goldman Sachs’ Investment Policy
Committee, answered: I’m sure there are success stories
out there, but at this moment I draw a blank.”
Mark Sirower, The Synergy Trap
“Acquisitions are about buying market share.
Our challenge is to create markets. There is a big difference.”
Peter Job, CEO, Reuters
“Our ideal acquisition is a small startup that has a great technology product on the drawing board that is going to come out in six to twelve months.
We buy the engineers and the next generation product. …”
John Chambers, Cisco
Lessons from the Bees!
“Since merger mania is now the rage, what lessons can the bees teach us? A simple one: Merging is not in
nature. [Nature’s] process is the exact opposite: one of growth, fragmentation and dispersal. There is no
megalomania, no merging for merging’s sake. The point is that unlike corporations, which just get bigger, bee colonies know when the time has come to split up into
smaller colonies which can grow value faster. What the bees are telling us is that the corporate
world has got it all wrong.”David Lascelles, Co-director of The Centre for the
Study of Financial Innovation [UK]
RM: “A lot of companies in the Valley fail.”
RN: “Maybe not enough fail.”
RM: “What do you mean by that?”
RN: “Whenever you fail, it means you’re trying new things.”
Source: Fast Company
Forbes100 from 1917 to 1987: 39 members of the Class of ’17 were alive in ’87; 18 are in ’87 F100; the 18 F100 “survivors” underperformed the market by
20%; just 2 (2%), GE & Kodak, outperformed the market from 1917 to 1987.
S&P 500 from 1957 to 1997: 74 members of the
Class of ’57 were alive in ’97; 12 (2.4%) of 500 outperformed the market from 1957 to 1997.
Source: Dick Foster & Sarah Kaplan, Creative Destruction: Why Companies That Are Built to Last Underperform the
Market
Headline: “Bank of America to Cut … 10,000 Jobs”
“Middle-level and senior managers are expected to be
the principal targets of the job cutbacks.”
Source: The New York Times (07.29.2000)
The Pincer 5
“Destructive” entrepreneurs/ Global Competition
“White Collar Robots”
THE INTERNET! [E.g.: GM + Ford + DaimlerChrysler]
Global Outsourcing [E.g.: India, Mexico]
Speed!!
Cisco, Dell =
Brand-owning companies who sell Customer
Satisfaction
Source: David Schneider & Grady Means, MetaCapitalism [e.g.: Cisco owns 2 of 38
assembly plants]
“P.S.F.”: Summary
H.V.A. Projects (100%)Pioneer Clients
WOW Work (see below)Hot “Talent” (see below)“Adventurous” “culture”
Proprietary Point of View (Methodology)W.W.P.F. (100%)/Outside Clients (25%++)
When: Now!
[“These days, building the best server isn’t enough. That’s the
price of entry.”
Ann Livermore, Hewlett Packard]
Maybe one [or more]
of your “PSFs” becomes the tail that wags the dog????? [E.g.: engineering, IS-logistics-
customer service]
Mystery Co.
Turnkey.Collections.
Flexible sourcing.Packaging.
Merchandising.Promotion.
Design.Systems & Site mgt.
2010 “Demographics”:
By 2010, full-time workers will be in the
minoritySource: MIT study (28August2000)
“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
Minimum New Work SurvivalSkillsKit2001
MasteryRolodex Obsession (vert. to horiz. “loyalty”)
Finishing SkillsEntrepreneurial Instinct
CEO/Leader/BusinesspersonMistress of Improv
Sense of HumorIntense Appetite for Technology
Groveling Before the YoungEmbracing “Marketing”
Passion for Renewal
“Success is the ability to go from failure to
failure without losing your enthusiasm.”
Winston Churchill (as quoted by John Peterman)
“Fail faster. Succeed sooner.”
DK/IDEO
“You must realize that how you invest your human capital matters as much as how you
invest your financial capital. Its rate of return determines your future options. Take a job for what it teaches you, not for what it pays. Instead of a potential employer asking, ‘Where do you see yourself in 5 years?’
you’ll ask, ‘If I invest my mental assets with you for 5 years, how much will they
appreciate? How much will my portfolio of career options grow?’ ”
Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, futureWEALTH
“When land was the productive asset, nations
battled over it. The same is happening now for talented people.”
Stan Davis & Christopher Meyer, futureWEALTH
“We have transitioned from an asset-based strategy
to a talent-based strategy.”
Jeff Skilling, CEO, Enron
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)
Home Depot: 7 new growth initiatives ($20B to $100B in 5-7 years)
Arthur Blank: BEST PERSON IN THE WORLD TO HEAD
EACH INITIATIVEE.g.: COO of IKEA to head
international expansion
Ed Michaels, War for Talent (05.17.00)
“We believe companies can increase their market cap 50 percent in 3 years. Steve
Macadam at Georgia Pacific changed 20 of his 40 box plant managers to put
more talented, higher paid managers in charge. He increased
profitability from $25 million to $80 million in 2 years.”
Ed Michaels, War for Talent (05.17.00)
Message: Some people are better than other
people. Some people are a helluva lot better than other
people.
“Top performing companies are two to four times more likely
than the rest to pay what it takes to prevent losing
top performers.”
Ed Michaels, War for Talent (05.17.00)
“We value engineers like professional athletes. We value great people at 10 times an average person
in their function.”Jerry Yang, Yahoo
So-so plant manager, $1M per year. Pay: $110,000 plus $60,000. Top plant manager,
$3-4M per year. Pay: $135,000 plus $90,000. Net:
$2-3M for $50K.
Source: Ed Michaels et al., The War for Talent, re Georgia Pacific
What gets measured gets done. What gets
paid for gets done more. What gets paid
a lot for gets done a lot more.
“Why focus on these late teens and twenty-somethings? Because they are the first
young who are both in a position to change the world, and are actually doing so. … For the first time in history, children are more comfortable, knowledgeable and literate than their parents about an innovation central to society. … The Internet has
triggered the first industrial revolution in history to be led by the young.”
The Economist [12/2000]
“One of the problems with Time Inc. is we tend to hang around
too long after you’re done doing what you’re doing – I’m a classic
example. It’s hard not to hang around, but it doesn’t do good things for the young talent that
is ready”
Dan Okrent, Editor at Large, Time Inc.
“Where do good new ideas come from? That’s simple! From
differences. Creativity comes from unlikely juxtapositions.
The best way to maximize differences is to mix ages, cultures and
disciplines.”
Nicholas Negroponte
“Diversity defines the health and wealth of nations in a new century.
Mighty is the mongrel. … The hybrid is hip. The impure, the mélange, the adulterated, the
blemished, the rough, the black-and-blue, the mix-and-match – these people are inheriting
the earth. Mixing is the new norm. Mixing trumps isolation. It spawns creativity,
nourishes the human spirit, spurs economic growth
and empowers nations.”
G. Pascal Zachary, The Global Me: New Cosmopolitans and the Competitive Edge
“AS LEADERS, WOMEN RULE: New Studies find that female managers
outshine their male counterparts in almost
every measure”Title, Special Report, Business Week, 11.20.00
The New Economy …
Shout goodbye to “command and control”!
Shout goodbye to hierarchy!
Shout goodbye to “knowing one’s place”!
Women’s Stuff = New Economy Match
Improv skillsRelationship-centric
Less “rank consciousness”Self determinedTrust sensitive
IntuitiveNatural “empowerment freaks” [less
threatened by strong people]Intrinsic [motivation] > Extrinsic
“TAKE THIS QUICK QUIZ: Who manages more things at once? Who puts more effort into their appearance? Who usually takes care of the details? Who finds it
easier to meet new people? Who asks more questions in a conversation? Who is a better
listener? Who has more interest in communication skills? Who is more inclined to get involved?
Who encourages harmony and agreement? Who has better intuition? Who works with a longer ‘to do’ list? Who enjoys a recap to the day’s events? Who is
better at keeping in touch with others?”
Source: Selling Is a Woman’s Game: 15 Powerful Reasons Why Women Can Outsell Men, Nicki Joy &
Susan Kane-Benson
“Investors are looking more and more for a relationship with their
financial advisers. They want someone they can trust, someone who listens. In my experience, in general, women may be better at these relationship-building skills
than are men.”
Hardwick Simmons, CEO, Prudential Securities
It’s Girls, Stupid!
1996: 8.4M women, 6.7M men in college (est: 9.2 to 6.9 in 2007); more women than men in
high-level math and science courses
More girls in student govt., honor societies; girls read more books, outperform boys in artistic and musical ability, study abroad in
higher numbers
Boys do rule: crime, alcohol, drugs, failure to do homework (4:1)
Source: The Atlantic Monthly (May2000)
Read This!
“Winning the Talent War for Women: Sometimes It
Takes a Revolution” Douglas McCracken, HBR [11-12/2000]
“Deloitte was doing a great job of hiring high-performing women; in fact, women often earned
higher performance ratings than men in their first years with the firm. Yet the percentage of women
decreased with step up the career ladder. … Most women weren’t leaving to raise families; they had weighed their options in Deloitte’s male-dominated culture and found them wanting.
Many, dissatisfied with a culture they perceived as endemic to professional service firms, switched
professions.”
Douglas McCracken, “Winning the Talent War for Women” [HBR]
63 of 2,500 top earners in F500
8% Big 5 partners
14% partners at top 250 law firms
43% new med students; 26% med
faculty; 7% deans
Source: Susan Estrich, Sex and Power
The Cracked Ones Let in the Light
“Our business needs a massive transfusion of talent, and talent, I believe, is most likely to be found
among non-conformists, dissenters and rebels.”
David Ogilvy
“Firms will not ‘manage the careers’ of their employees. They
will provide opportunities to enable the employee to develop
identity and adaptability and
thus be in charge of his or her own career.”
Tim Hall et al., “The New Protean Career Contract”
Goal of the Year No. 1*: Find-Develop-Mentor
ONE Extraordinary Person.
*CEO, large financial advisory firm, April 2001
Talent Ten
1. Obsession2. Greatness3. Performance 4. Pay5. Youth6. Diversity7. Women8. Weird9. Adventurous10. Uniqueness
EVP = Challenge, professional growth, respect, satisfaction, opportunity, reward
[EVP = “The company’s fingerprint” = B.P.]
Source: Ed Michaels et al., The War for Talent
The following slide begins the “Boss-Free Implementation of
Stuff That Matters” Section. The slides in this section are heavily
annotated.
Use Normal or Notes Page View to access the notes.
Heart of the Matter
F2F!/K2K!/1@T/R.F.A.*
*Freak to Freak/Kook to Kook/One at a Time/ Ready.Fire!Aim.
Is It …
“The Oh-Hell-I-Wish-It-Were-Over Memorial Day picnic”
or
“The First Annual Seriously
Kewl Celebration of Our Incredible Staff”
Is It …
Wrestle the damn Safety Manual into line with the ridiculous new OSHA Regs?
Or …
A stealth opportunity to address the War for Talent via … a thoroughgoing review
of how safety and environmental issues contribute to making this a
Great Place to Work?
R.F!A.: Culture of Prototyping
“Effective prototyping may be
the most valuable core competence an innovative organization can
hope to have.”
Michael Schrage
Reframers’ Rules:
Rule 1: Never accept an assignment as given! (Please.)
Rule 2: You’re never so powerful as when you are “powerless”!
Rule 3: Every “small” project contains the entire
enterprise DNA!
Joe J. Jones Joe J. Jones 1942 – 2001 1942 – 2001
HE WOULDA DONE SOME HE WOULDA DONE SOME
REALLY COOL STUFF REALLY COOL STUFF
BUT …BUT …
HIS BOSS WOULDN’T LET HIM! HIS BOSS WOULDN’T LET HIM!
Characteristics of the “Also rans”*
“Minimize risk”“Respect the chain of
command”“Support the boss”
“Make budget”
*Fortune, article on “Most Admired Global Corporations”
The greatest dangerfor most of us
is not that our aim istoo high
and we miss it,but that it is
too lowand we reach it.
Michelangelo
Saviors-in-Waiting
Disgruntled CustomersFringe CompetitorsRogue Employees
Edge SuppliersWayne Burkan, Wide Angle Vision: Beat the
Competition by Focusing on Fringe Competitors, Lost Customers, and Rogue
Employees
Button-down Org H.S.D.E. .
• Acquire for market share• Suck up to biggest customers• Pursue “strategic vendors”• Bigger is better• Accept assignments as given• Hire 4.0s from “top schools”• Promote when they’ve “paid
their dues”• Appoint a “prestigious” board
• Hang out with my pals• R.A.F.• Be “professional” at all
times/Honor thine elders
• Acquire for innovation• Partner with cool customers• Seek out pioneering vendors• Break it up … to refresh• Reframe all tasks to innovate• Hire “intriguing,” wherever• Promote tomorrow if the work
product is weird and WOW• Appoint an interesting,
headstrong board• Take a freak to lunch today• F.F.F.• Stay loose, stay cool/The hell
with thine elders
The Three Levels of Innovation
Transformational
Substantial
Incremental
Source: Dick Foster, Business 2.0 (05.01) Note: Each level requires totally different processes!
N.W.O.: Was Is Is
• Pine-paneled Office• Address: 1 Big Man Plaza• Secretary• Suit • Formal • Rank conscious• Pretense (“Failures are
for fools.”)• I love “Yes men”• Self-contained
• Seat 9B, UA233• Address: [email protected]• Typing: 60 WPM• Casual M-F• Approachable• We are a HOT Team • Screwing up is as normal
as breathing• I love Misfits!• I love partners
“Our basic business belief is that we don’t
want a parity product.”
Stephen Sanger, CEO, General Mills
Quality Not Enough!
“While everything may be better, it is also increasingly the
same.”Paul Goldberger on retail, “The Sameness
of Things,” The New York Times
“We make over three new product announcements a
day. Can you remember them?
Our customers can’t!”Carly Fiorina
“The ‘surplus society’ has a surplus of
similar companies, employing
similar people, with similar educational backgrounds, working in
similar jobs, coming up with similar
ideas, producing similar things, with
similar prices and similar quality.”
Kjell Nordstrom and Jonas Ridderstrale, Funky Business
“Companies have defined so much ‘best practice’
that they are now more or less identical.”
Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment
Tomorrow Today: Cisco!
90% of $20B (=$50M/day)75% mfg. outsourced; 50% of orders routed to supplier who ships direct
Gross margin: 65%; Net margin: 28%
Annual savings in service and support from customer
self-management: $550M
Enron eWorld: “Price a structured trade,” per John Arnold, 26: Early
1999: 30 times a day. Late 2000: 30 times per … minute.
Long-term gas contract. 1989: 9 months, 400+ deals. Late 90s:
2 weeks, 2 per week. Late 2000: 5 such deals per day
Source: www.ecompany.com (1-2/2001)
“This is the first meter of a 10-kilometer race.
Eventually, all markets will come to resemble today’s foreign exchange market.”
Hamid Biglari, Head of Corporate Strategy, Citigroup, in “GIGATRENDS”, Wired 04.01
eWorld/USPS Woes
86% of 880,000,000 SS checks, tax refunds and other govt. payments are
electronic
Source: Industry Standard 03.05.01
Tomorrow Today: Cisco!
90% of $20B; save $550M
C.Sat e >> C.Sat H
Customer Engineer Chat Rooms/Collaborative
Design ($1B “free” consulting) (45,000 customer problems a week solved via
customer collaboration)
Welcome to
D.I.Y. Nation!“Changes in business processes will emphasize self service. Your costs as
a business go down and
perceived service goes up because customers are conducting it
themselves.” Ray Lane, Oracle
“One cannot be tentative about this. Excuses like ‘channel
conflict’ or ‘marketing and sales aren’t ready’ cannot be allowed. Delay and you risk being cut out of your own market, perhaps not by traditional competitors but by companies you
never heard of 24 months ago.”
Jack Welch [07.00/Forbes.com]
GE & the Web
Purchasing: 2000: $6B; 2001: $15B
Sales: 1999: $1B; 2000: $7B; 2001: $20B+
Source: Business 2.0 (05.01)
“We’ve put the word out to all of our suppliers: by the end of the year [2000] we’ll only do purchasing
over the Internet.”John Paterson, C.P.O., IBM
[$50B from 18,000 suppliers]
WebWorld = Everything
Web as a way to run your business’s innardsWeb as connector for your entire supply-demand chain Web as “spider’s web” which re-conceives the industry
Web/B2B as ultimate wake-up call to “commodity producers”
Web as the scourge of slack, inefficiency, sloth, bureaucracy, poor customer data
Web as an Encompassing Way of LifeWeb = Everything (P.D. to after-sales)
Web forces you to focus on what you do bestWeb as entrée, at any size, to World’s Best at Everything
as next door neighbor
Message: eCommerce is not a technology play! It is a
relationship, partnership, organizational and
communications play, made possible by new
technologies.
Message: There is no such thing as an effective B2B or
Internet-supply chain strategy in a low-trust,
bottlenecked-communication, six-layer
organization.
“Ebusiness is about rebuilding the organization from the
ground up. Most companies today are not built to exploit the Internet.
Their business processes, their approvals, their hierarchies, the
number of people they employ … all of that is wrong for running an
ebusiness.”
Ray Lane, Kleiner Perkins
“There is no use trying,” said Alice. “One can’t believe impossible things.”
“I daresay you haven’t had much practice,” said the Queen. “When I was
your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I’ve
believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll
?????????
Home Furnishings … 94%Vacations … 92%
Houses … 91%Consumer Electronics … 51%
Cars … 60% (90%)All consumer purchases … 83%
Bank Account … 89%Health Care … 80%
48% working wives > 50%80% checks
61% bills53% stock (mutual fund boom)
43% > $500K95% financial decisions/
29% single handed
Women … 50+%(!!!) of Web users; 6 of 10 new users; 83% of wired women are primary decision makers for family
healthcare, finances, education.
Source: Business Week; Jupiter Communications
Carol Gilligan/ In a Different Voice
Men: Get away from authority, familyWomen: Connect
Men: Self-orientedWomen: Other-oriented
Men: RightsWomen: Responsibilities
FemaleThink/ Popcorn
“Men and women don’t think the same way, don’t communicate the same
way, don’t buy for the same reasons.”
“He simply wants the transaction to take place. She’s interested in creating a relationship. Every place women go,
they make connections.”
“Men seem like loose cannons. Men always move faster through a store’s
aisles. Men spend less time looking. They usually don’t like asking where things are.
You’ll see a man move impatiently through a store to the section he wants,
pick something up, and then, almost abruptly he’s ready to buy. … For a
man, ignoring the price tag is almost a sign of virility.”
Paco Underhill, Why We Buy* (*Buy this book!)
Women and Healthcare
Women are … more dissatisfied, frustrated by the way they are treated and spoken down to by physicians, seek more information, are more pressed for
time … and make 75% of health care decisions and control 2/3 of health care $
$$$ [and constitute 2/3 of health care employees].
Source: Patricia Braus, Marketing Healthcare to Women
Women and Financial Advisors
Women want … a plan, to be listened to, to be taken seriously, to read about it, to think about it.
Women do not want … an in-your-face sales pitch
Source: Kathleen Boyle, Wheat Boyle Butcher Singer
“Women Beat Men at Art of Investing”
Source: Miami Herald, reporting on a study by Profs. Terrance Odean and Brad Barber, UC Davis (Cause: Guys are “in and out” of
stocks more often; women choose carefully and hold on for the long term)
Marketing to Women: Help Them Save Time!
80% … work86% … cook
58% … run errands with kids38% … take child to school
21% … go to the gym21% … take outside classes
How Many Gigs You Got, Man?
“Hard to believe … Different criteria”
“Every research study we’ve done indicates that women really care about the relationship with their
vendor.”
Robin Sternbergh/ IBM
“The ‘Connection Proclivity’ in women starts early. When asked,
‘How was school today?’ a girl usually tells her mother every
detail of what happened, while a boy might grunt, ‘Fine.’ ”
EVEolution
“Women speak and hear a language of connection and intimacy, and men
speak and hear a language of status and independence. Men communicate to obtain information,establish their
status, and show independence. Women communicate to create
relationships, encourage interaction, and exchange feelings.”
Judy Rosener, America’s Competitive Secret
[“The Hollywood scripts that men write tend to be direct and
linear, while women’s compositions have many
conflicts, many climaxes, and many endings.”
Helen Fisher, The First Sex: The Natural Talents of Women and How They Are
Changing the World]
[“I only really understand myself, what I’m really thinking and feeling, when I’ve talked it over with my circle of female
friends. When days go by without that connection, I feel
like a radio playing in an empty room.”
Anna Quindlen]
What If …
“What if ExxonMobil or Shell dipped into their credit card database to help commuting women
interview and make a choice of car pool partners?”
“What if American Express made a concerted effort to connect up female empty-nesters
through on-line and off-line programs, geared to help women re-enter the workforce with today’s
skills?”
EVEolution
“Women don’t buy
brands. They join them.”
Faith Popcorn, EVEolution
Enterprise Reinvention!
RecruitingHiring/Rewarding/Promoting
Structure Processes
MeasurementStrategyCulture Vision
Leadership
THE BRAND ITSELF!
27March2000: email to TP from
Shelley Rae Norbeck “I make 1/3rd more money than my husband does. I have as much financial ‘pull’ in the
relationship as he does. I’d say this is also true
of most of my women friends. Someone should wake up, smell the
coffee and kiss our asses long enough to sell us something! We
have money to spend and nobody wants it!”
STATEMENT OF PHILOSOPHY: I am a businessperson. An analyst. A pragmatist. The enormous social good of increased women’s
power is clear to me; but it is not my bailiwick. My “game” is haranguing business leaders
about my fact-based conviction that women’s increasing power – leadership skills
and purchasing power – is the strongest and most dynamic force at work in the American
economy today. Dare I say it as a long-time Palo Altan … THIS IS EVEN BIGGER THAN THE
INTERNET!
Tom Peters
“If we are single, they say we couldn’t catch a man. If we are
married, they say we are neglecting him. If we are divorced,
they say we couldn’t keep him. If we are widowed, they say we
killed him.”
Kathleen Brown, on the joys of female political candidacy
“ ‘Age Power’ will rule the 21st century.”
“We are woefully unprepared.”
Ken Dychtwald, Age Power: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old
50+
$7T wealth (70%)/$2T annual income50% all discretionary spending
79% own homes40M credit card users
41% new cars/48% luxury/5M auto loans$610B healthcare spending
74% prescription drugs
5% of advertising targets
Ken Dychtwald, Age Power: How the 21st Century Will Be Ruled by the New Old
All Equal Except …
“At Sony we assume that all products of our competitors have basically the same
technology, price, performance and
features. Design is the only thing that differentiates one product from another in the
marketplace.”Norio Ohga
“What’s imperative is the creation of a style that
becomes a culture linking you to the community. You
can only do that through good design.” – Anita Roddick
Source: Design Council [UK]
“We don’t have a good language to talk about this kind of thing. In most people’s
vocabularies, design means veneer. … But to me, nothing could be further from the
meaning of design. Design is the fundamental soul
of a man-made creation.”Steve Jobs
The I.D. [International Design] Forty*
Airstream … Alfred A. Knopf … Apple Computer … Amazon.com …
Bloomberg … Caterpillar … CNN … Disney … FedEx … Gillette … IBM … Martha Stewart … New Balance …
Nickelodeon … Patagonia … The New York Yankees … 3M … Etc.
* List No. 1, 1999
Design Transforms even the [Biggest] Corporations!
TARGET … “the champion of America’s new design democracy” (Time) “Marketer of the Year 2000”
(Advertising Age)
THE BASE CASE: I am a design fanatic. Personally, though not “artistic,” I’m a cool-stuff guy. I love what
I love and I hate what I hate. But it goes [much] further, far beyond the personal. Design has become
a professional obsession. I – SIMPLY – BELIEVE THAT DESIGN PER SE IS
THE PRINCIPAL REASON FOR EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT [or detachment] RELATIVE TO A
PRODUCT OR SERVICE OR EXPERIENCE. Design, as I see it, is arguably the #1 determinant of
whether a product-service-experience stands out … or doesn’t. Furthermore, it’s “one of those things” …
that damn few companies put – consistently – on the front burner.
Message:“Services” are Not Intangible!
You “give off” hundreds of design cues … daily!
YOU ARE A DESIGNER!
First Steps: “Beauty Contest”!
• Select one form/document: invoice, air bill, sick leave policy, customer returns-claim form
• Rate the selected doc on a scale of 1 to 10 [1 = Bureaucratica Obscuranta/ Sucks; 10 = Work of Art] on three dimensions: Beauty, Grace, Clarity
• Re-invent!• Repeat, with a new selection, every 15
working days.
“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
“The [Starbucks] Fix” Is on …
“We have identified a ‘third place.’ And I really believe that sets us apart. The third place is
that place that’s not work or home. It’s the place our
customers come for refuge.”Nancy Orsolini, District Manager
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
“Car designers need to create a story. Every car provides an
opportunity to create an adventure. …“The Prowler makes you smile. Why? Because it’s focused. It has a plot, a
reason for being, a passion.”
Freeman Thomas, co-designer VW Beetle; designer Audi TT
Plot
Williams Sonoma = 5 [was 10]Crate & Barrel = 8
Sharper Image = 9+Smith & Hawken = 8+
Garnet Hill = 9L.L. Bean = 4 [was 9+]
Colonial Williamsburg = ?
1940: Cake from flour, sugar (raw materials economy): $1.00
1955: Cake from Cake mix (goods economy): $2.00
1975: Bakery-made cake (service economy): $10.00
1990: Party @ Chuck E. Cheese (experience economy) $100.00
“The idea that business is just a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous.
For one thing, I’ve never been particularly good at numbers, but I think I’ve done a
reasonable job with feelings. And I’m convinced that it is feelings – and
feelings alone – that account for the success of the Virgin brand in all of
its myriad forms.”Richard Branson
“We are in the twilight of a society based on data. As information and intelligence become the domain of computers, society will place more value on the one human ability that cannot be automated: emotion.
Imagination, myth, ritual - the language of emotion - will affect everything from our purchasing decisions
to how we work with others. Companies will thrive on the basis of their stories and myths. Companies will need to understand
that their products are less important than their stories.”
Rolf Jensen, Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies
“Most companies tend to equate branding with the company’s marketing. Design a new marketing
campaign and, voila, you’re on course. They are wrong. The task is much bigger. It is about fulfilling our potential … not about a new logo, no matter how
clever. WHAT IS MY MISSION IN LIFE? WHAT DO I WANT TO CONVEY TO PEOPLE? HOW DO
I MAKE SURE THAT WHAT I HAVE TO OFFER THE WORLD IS ACTUALLY UNIQUE? The brand has to give of itself, the company has to give of itself, the management has to give of itself. To
put it bluntly, it is a matter of whether – or not – you want to be … UNIQUE … NOW.”
Jesper Kunde, A Unique Moment
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
“Brand Promise” Exercise: (1) Who Are WE? (1 page, then 25 words.) (2) List
three ways in which we are UNIQUE … to our Clients. (3) Who are THEY (competitors)? (ID, 25 words.)
(4) List 3 distinct “us”/“them” differences. (5) Try “results” on your teammates. (6) Try ’em on a friendly Client. (7) Big Enchilada:
Try ’em on a skeptical Client!
Jesper Kunde’s Challenge: All business processes
should be aligned with the Brand/Value Promise.
Think … Brand Driven Systems!
Remember: What’s your company’s
EVP?Employee Value Proposition, per Ed
Michaels et al., The War for Talent
Message: REAL Branding is personal. REAL Branding is integrity. REAL
Branding is consistency & freshness. REAL Branding is the answer to WHO
ARE WE? WHY ARE WE HERE? REAL Branding is why I/you/we [all] get out of bed in the morning. REAL Branding can’t be faked. REAL Branding is a systemic, 24/7, all departments,
all hands affair.
Leadership 2001
Talent-obsessed (Great>>>Good)Opportunity Structure (Fast & Cool &
Accountable & Rewarding) Pursuit of a Cause (Brand-driven)
Content-driven (“PSF”/WOW! Projects)State-of-the-Art (Technology!)
Adventuresome Culture (Disrespect, Short Memory, Sense of Humor)Culture of Hyper-urgency
Enthusiast-in-Chief
“Leaders achieve their
effectiveness chiefly through
the stories they relate. In addition to communicating stories, leaders embody those
stories.”Howard Gardner, Leading Minds:
An Anatomy of Leadership
“Create a Cause, not a ‘business.’
”Gary Hamel, Fortune (06.00), on re-inventing a
company (Exemplar #1: Charles Schwab)
“As Ministers of The Republic of Tea, our
not-so-covert mission is to carry out a Tea
Revolution.”Ron Rubin & Stuart Avery Gold,
success@life
“Our free and open immigration policies welcome all who wish to flee the tyranny of
coffee crazed lives and escape the frazzled fast paced race-to-stay-in-one-place existence that it fuels. In our tiny land, we have come to learn
that coffee is about speeding up and losing sight, while tea is about slowing down and
taking a look. Because tea is not just a beverage, it is a consciousness altering
substance that allows for a way of getting in touch with and taking pleasure from the beauty
and the wonder that life has to offer.”
Ron Rubin & Stuart Avery Gold, success@life
Message: Leadership is
all about Passion! [Enthusiasms, Appetite for Life,
Engagement, Commitment, Great Causes & Determination to Make a
Damn Difference, Shared Adventures, Bizarre Failures, Growth, Insatiable
Appetite for Change.] [Otherwise, why bother? Just
read Dilbert. TP’s final words: CYNICISM SUCKS.]