Best of Blogs: Tom Peters

For anyone who follows leadership and management, Tom Peters really needs no introduction. Major publications (like Fortune and the Economist) has called Tom the "uber-guru" of management and the inventor of the enormous "management guru industry." Others have gone on to say "we live in a Tom Peters world."

Tom has always remained true to his core that an organization's people, Customers and values are the basic drivers behind all success. However, he also was one of the first to champion creating products and services for the women's market, point out the global business dominance of the boomer+ market, operational excellence in healthcare and many more.

I've read Tom's work since In Search of Excellence in the mid 80's, and so I'm proud that his blog is on this list. The reality is though that no leadership blog contest would be complete without Dispatches from the World of Work. Here's just a sample from his world:

More on Indifference from Tom
by Tom Peters (April 10, 2007)

Darci, from her Comment: "... and pursue my passion. It was a leap of faith and there was no safety net to catch me if I failed."

Darci, here's the way I look at it. We all "fail" in the end. "Fail" as in finish, finito, die. (I am not talking religion here—we may indeed go to a better world, or a worse one, but we will not be amidst this one.) So if, to quote an old joke, "We might as well go for it, boys, none of us is going to get out alive": Well, then, to me, the only ... TRUE FAILURE ... is a failure to ... Engage Fully, 100% of the time.

(My casual reading of Aristotle, and I'm no student of philosophy, is that, for instance, "happiness" is complete engagement, not some bemused state; "leisure" is an opportunity to grow in new ways, not a chance to veg out; etc.)

And another thing: Indifference makes you sloppy, sloppy in general. You can call it "studied indifference," or "purposeful indifference," or whatever you want, but if your goal is stupefaction on the job, it'll spread like a virus—even to home life.

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