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Just for my own curiousity, how many miles a year do you log?

Posted by Tony May / Mayday Media at April 6, 2005 12:49 AM

I figure 80 "events," about 3,000 "real" miles per round trip, or, say, 250,000 miles per year. I've been doin' this since 1978, about 90 per year. So that's more or less 2,500 speechs @ 3K miles per--or more or less 8 MILLION miles. (Holy shit.)(Next question?)

Posted by tom peters at April 6, 2005 1:41 AM

Tom - about how many have attended your sessions since 1978? "Winning" has a Jack reference that he's spoken before 250,000. And any Santa Fe / Albuquerque plans? Take care.

Posted by Sean at April 6, 2005 11:32 AM

2,500 speeches. #s vary from from 10 (ten, total) to 15 thousand. (100,000 if you count teleconferences, which I don't since they're not live.) Lets say 500-1,000 per live event. So that would be 1,250,000 to 2,500,000. Ye gads!

Posted by tom peters at April 7, 2005 9:00 AM

Here's a thought for these Lean Organization times. Stop re-posting the same old slide sets all the time. Drive that waste out of your company's activities and save yourself some money, time, etc. I haven't seen very much (if anything) new in the slides since January 2004. Just post a new master slide set every three months or so and let it be.

Posted by Mike at April 7, 2005 11:00 AM

Mike - actually 15% of posting is NEW - and most love the speed of posting.

Dr. Tom - thanks - you've moved the masses: 2.5 million is close to double the population of Manhattan [1.5 million]!

Posted by Sean at April 7, 2005 12:43 PM

Tom, please get back to blogging asap - leave the speaking gigs, increase your time spent on blogging and inspire those management professionals who need their daily shot of inspiration, reflection and support in an effort to change a crazy corporate world.

Posted by Marcel Knotter at April 8, 2005 4:23 AM

Marcel - well said my friend - I agree with you

Tom has a captive audience of thousands - world wide - every day through blogging on this site

That is not to say Tom Peters should not tour the world and talk to people 'live.'

In fact I believe there is still nothing to beat human interaction for networking despite modern technology which I absolutely love.

tompeters.com without posts from Tom Peters is no better than a thousand other blogs I can read.

Peters personal interest in the blog makes this blog distinctive!

No disrespect to anyone else who posts on Tom Peters Blog but it is always the posts from Mr P that I look for.

How about it Tom?

Trevor

Posted by Trevor Gay at April 8, 2005 5:55 AM

"Over the pond" more like overused Marvin Gaye pere. I agree though - I'd PAY to NOT see another Halley or Pammie Shrill mindless know nothing about corporate profit web log.

Instead stay with Dr. Thomas, recruit "Winning" comments from Jack and Suzy, plus Dan Pink - keep Steve, Erik, Cathy - the core group - thanks for the bandwidth - I'm flexible on this.

Posted by Sean at April 9, 2005 7:44 PM

I for one like the updated slides. I copy them into Word, cut out the redundant ones, reduce down to 10pt type, double column, and print them front to back, and anotated them with my own thoughts when I have 30-45 seconds during the day.

The value is that we all get fixated on specific topics, and what this has done is force me to think more broadly. Right now I'm thinking about talent competition between community non-profits and university student organizations.

I wish I knew what the numbers meant. Are they explained in the book? I should know, but I haven't read it yet. I will. I promise.

Posted by Ed Brenegar at April 11, 2005 4:34 PM

Ed--buy the slide packages that include the speaker notes for an explanation of the numbers. Some you can infer from old blogs of Peters', such as the "Big Blog" from 2004.

Posted by Mike at April 11, 2005 4:51 PM

Sean/John/Mary/Jack/Ted/Brad/Ashton/Mike,
sorry, but halley and pam are part of the team here at tompeters.com and will continue blogging.

Posted by Erik at April 11, 2005 5:35 PM