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A toast of diet Snapple to your travel endurance - 61 going on 21!!!

The travel book you write some day will make zillions!!!

Posted by Freeman at November 23, 2004 3:34 PM

Tom, here is some fuel for your travel tank: as a new reader, I've just said "wow" for the 10th time in 20 minutes reading PSF Unbound...

Keep up the great work and add a "wow count" to those stats!

Posted by Alain at November 23, 2004 4:19 PM

"This Blogsite is my on-the-road family!", actually tom its not the site that is the family.. its the blogcommunity that has become the family.. There is close knitted connection between bloggers. They accept feeds and yes, the indivual 'manna' is their personal blogspot... but the community is the "family" ..correct ??

Posted by /pd at November 23, 2004 4:42 PM

peter, in a word: Yes.

Posted by tom peters at November 23, 2004 6:49 PM

Freeman ... headin' home in 7 hours. Will deal immediately with my 2 weeks of DPSnapple-free life. Four hour drive from Boston to VT ... about 4 DPS's.

Posted by tom peters at November 23, 2004 6:51 PM

This is the first stop of each day. Looking to create a new thing. A buzz! working on the design, hammering it out. GONNA MAKE A DENT IN THE UNIVERSE! This blog is helping me lay down the bones and get it done like no one has done it before. Along with my trusty project 50 and the 5th disipline by Peter Senge, the four agreements and several others. Thank you for the inspiration.

Posted by gary fox at November 23, 2004 7:54 PM

"About a year ago I hired a developer in India to do my job. I pay him $12000 to do the job I get paid $67300 to do". Great story, but how do I find a developer to produce on-line accounts software. Searching the web produces too many options.

Going down the outsoucing route myself produces more bad comments than good from associates, colleagues, etc. It MUST therefore be the right thing to do!!

Posted by Stuart Jones at November 24, 2004 1:20 AM

Stuart, there's another slide that suggests the important thing is not to blindly in-source or out-source or anything-else-source. The important thing is to "right source". Amen to that. I've been in organisations that have outsourced simply because they were required to get their headcounts down or because they naively bought into the provider's, "We're the specialist experts" argument. It ought to be about who can do the best job for your business now and in the future, and how you'll manage them on an on-going basis.

Posted by Mark JF at November 24, 2004 7:47 AM

Thanks Mark & Peter.

I'm an English chartered accountant. Nobody is more risk averse than my type! All I know is that I cannot make money charging labour on in my market - the clients won't pay the rate required to make a profit. It's better not to take on the work.

My initial comment was going to include something like "I'm dipping my toe in the water in connection with outsourcing..." but thought I would be chewed up by TP.

I need to know how to contact likely "firms" in India and bearing in mind Tom's posting today, probably China as well.

Peter, I can't seem to follow the link in your Blog.

Thanks

Posted by Stuart jones at November 24, 2004 12:23 PM

thks for the heads up Stuart, I'll have to make sure the links works. My scratchpad has a lot of stuff on IT/Outsouring too.

Posted by /pd at November 24, 2004 1:30 PM

Stuart: Read this Article

Posted by /pd at November 25, 2004 7:42 PM

U r an inspirational person. U have got amazing energy Tom. How much time do u devote to exercise and meditation sessions, amongst the loads of work u do. Do share this with others, so that others are benefitted.

Posted by mannu at November 26, 2004 8:18 AM

tu libro apesta

Posted by pepe at November 26, 2004 9:44 AM

grande pa!!

Posted by pepe at November 26, 2004 9:44 AM

I have the same job than Tom, is it difficult with all those exotic travelling to not cheat on your wife ? Being a guru, speaking to thousands and lonely in the hotel room...

Posted by John at December 2, 2004 7:01 PM