Sep 11 2007
Tom Peters Lives!
Who knew?
My work colleague was at a conference this week and the keynote speaker was Tom Peters
, the uber-guru of management. Twenty five years ago, Tom and his colleague Bob Waterman wrote the seminal book, In Search of Excellence. I guess I hadn’t thought of Tom since reading In Search, but he is definitely alive and still kicking. Tom is continuing to write books and is still riding the speaker circuit.
On his website, Tom willingly shares copies of his presentations and has converted many of his better blog posts to PDFs for easy downloading and sharing. If you have the time, you can also view all 2700 slides (in 7 parts) of his presentation Excellence 2007.
In fact, you can even download the slides he used yesterday at the Taleo conference - both the short and long versions. My only nit is that his fonts and colors are a little (ok more than a little) jarring to the senses (especially if you consider yourself a design expert).
The slides give you only a small slice of Tom in action. To get a taste of Tom’s presentation style in a live format, you need to experience him live (or via YouTube). Here is a link to a short 3-minute YouTube video with Tom presenting on the the topic “Innovation is Easy“. And there are 29 other Tom Peters videos on YouTube if you want more of Tom - check for the Related videos.
[this blog entry was originally posted to the Catalyze Current Wisdom Blog on September 11, 2007]