Talk with Tom"The tiny, spontaneous, human act has enormous power." Tom Peters
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163 Ways to Pursue Excellence
"The Little BIG Things is, without any hint of hyperbole, the single best management book I've ever read."
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"This 'wizard of wow!', this 'emperor of excellence' wins you over with his irrepressible energy and verve."
—Financial Times
"If you truly believe 'excellence' is what Tom Peters is all about, then you will buy this book, read it, learn from it and go away confirmed in your belief. Tom's 163 tips are validated through experience again and again."
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Tom's new book, The Little BIG Things, is a compendium of 163 ways to pursue excellence—with tips ranging from the blatantly obvious, "Show Up! (It's a Start.)" and "It's All About ... the Quality of the Workforce," to the wildly counterintuitive, "Boring Is Beautiful" and "Reward DNK (Do Not Know)," to the often repeated, "The Customer Is 'She.'" Begun as a repackaging of the Success Tips from our blog, this book became so much more as Tom worked and reworked its contents. Now, its main message is that EXCELLENCE is the result of many small tasks, all of which can be practiced and mastered. The Little BIG Things are meant to be sampled, a bit at a time. As Tom says in the Introduction, "My colleagues and I mostly expect you to read the book while sitting on the toilet. (Literally or figuratively.) That is, we hardly imagine that you'll breathlessly read the whole thing from start to finish. Instead, I imagine you'll look at this idea or that—and I obviously hope that a few will be compelling enough to induce you to take action."
Publisher: HarperStudio (New York)
Date: 9 March 2010
ISBN: 978-0061894084
Price: $24.99 US, $32.99 Can
Distributed in the UK by Publishers Group UK
UK pub date: 22 March 2010
Price: £16.99 UK
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Have a Taste
Why not read a sample from the book? Choose from the Introduction, the Table of Contents, the section about Others, or the section on Enterprise. As a preview, we had sent section 1, Little, to recipients of our TP Times newsletter, and that's also available.
A Little BIG Thing
We caught Tom on camera talking about many of the little BIG things included in the book. He talks about the importance of listening in the video below. For more videos in this series, visit our channel at YouTube.
Listen Up!
While Tom was reading The Little BIG Things for the audio edition, we made a collection of mp3 files, one item at a time. So, here they are, The Little BIG Things read by Tom. We've posted them a section at a time, and the book is now complete. Listen and get energized by Tom's enthusiastic rendering of his book!
The final audio excerpts, posted 19 December, are in the section of TLBT titled "BIG":
About Tom
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Apps & eBooks
The Little BIG Things is available as an ebook through iTunes or for the Kindle.
Our friends at Vook have put together enhanced ebooks on select topics that allow you to read excerpts from The Little BIG Things and view related videos. You can experience the enhanced ebooks through the iBookstore for your iPhone or iPad, or as standalone apps for either device.
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Synopsis Series
From Tom: "You'll find here the 'CliffsNotes' version of The Little BIG Things. In the interest of getting connected with as many people as possible, I've produced a series of 'Highlights' pdfs, which capture the 'BIG idea' in each of these 'little BIG things.' Missing are (1) the nuances and (2) 90 percent of the 'How to's' and the rationale for those 'How to's.' Eliminating the subtleties and cutting the action part is cutting the heart out of the book—nonetheless, I hope you will be titillated by what follows and moved, perhaps, to purchase the book; or in fact to use this version, distribute it, etc.—I want the ideas to circulate to the max." There are 48 sections and an introduction, each only a page or two, released over the course of several months.
#48 Big
#47 Success
#46 Special Section: The Heart of Business Strategy
#45 Impact
#44 Now
#43 Wow
#42 Re-imagining
#41 Special Section: The Top 50 "Have Yous"
#40 Enterprise
#39 Grunge
#38 Details
#37 Design
#36 Time
#35 Learning
#34 Curiosity
#33 Special Section: Quotations 34
#32 Listening
#31 Innovation
#30 Gender
#29 People
#28 Talent
#27 Presence
#26 Passion
#25 Special Section: Charlie Wilson's War
#24 Change
#23 Action
#22 Customers
#21 No
#20 Yes
#19 Equations
#18 Lunch
#17 Networking
#16 Words
#15 Leadership
#14 Initiative
#13 Work
#12 Performance
#11 Attitude
#10 Connection
#9 Others
#8 Self
#7 Special Section: The Recession 46
#6 Resilience
#5 Opportunity
#4 Crisis
#3 Special Section: Guru Gaffes
#2 Excellence
#1 Little
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