Tom Peters

Free leadership video clips

Submitted by PhilDourado on October 13, 2009 - 11:00pm.

These are pretty cool. Includes Tom Peters ranting and raving - great fun.

http://vimeo.com/1037660

And these are also free to view. Includes Daniel Goleman and a host of other well-known names:

http://www.bvo.com

Phil

Tom Peters defines leadership (video clip)

Submitted by Gadget_Leader on September 7, 2009 - 4:30pm.

He's a lot better than this live. It's actually rather excruciating watching him chopping the air like this - but highly entertaining. And he gets to the point eventually. All part of the charm of the world's greatest business guru (the 'ur guru' or the 'uber guru' according to Fortune and The Economist - the guru of gurus, in other words).

Tom Peters on hospital leadership

Submitted by PhilDourado on August 10, 2009 - 11:01am.

From Tom Peters' blog post of July 25 2009 which you can read in full here

Co-creation - close to the customer, chef tables and KT Tunstall

Submitted by PhilDourado on March 8, 2009 - 3:29pm.

I was in Berlin a while ago and took a picture of sacks of flour. I was in a cafe. The sacks of flour were on a pallet for the chefs to make pizza with. The sacks of flour were IN the cafe, not behind, in some back room, but piled up next to where the customers were sitting.

Every now and again a chef wandered out from the open plan kitchen, grabbed a sack and wandered back in again. Who cares and a big so what you might think. But, it's significant.

The Great Leader is...

Submitted by PhilDourado on September 3, 2008 - 8:37am.

(This is an extract from September's Taking The Lead, the monthly email newsletter I write for Leaders in London, published today).

Carly Fiorina led the merger of HP and Compaq before being given the order of the golden boot, but has since had her reputation re-built by results: Thanks to her HP strategy, Hewlett-Packard overtook IBM last year as the world’s largest technology company. Tom Peters, the business guru and a past Leaders in London speaker, now refers to her as his "CEO Hero". Fiorina likes to quote Lao Tsu: