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Tom: Great stuff! I admit to being a little frustrated with the inability to hear your explanations on some of the slides with only numbers. It certainly makes me want to hear the presentation in person!

Posted by walter white at September 29, 2005 11:00 AM

Walter, understand the frustration, but there's not time for annotation. Alas. So the slides per se are about the best we can do. (S'pose I could do an audio tape--I'll think on it.)

Posted by tom peters at September 29, 2005 12:08 PM

Tom - not complaining. The fact that you share this and other presentations on the blog is great. I am thankful for the effort you make!

Posted by walter white at September 29, 2005 4:20 PM

Tom,

Great, great, great. If you don't mind, I'm going to use some of these for my business English class(es) next semester.

This semester I had students reading several of your posts/articles (and also some from Seth Godin). They loved them... were surprised, shocked, and excited.

Seems they weren't learning anything nearly as interesting (or relevant) in their business classes...

Im an English teacher, not a businessman, so I appreciate being able to "steal" your wisdom to help my students.

Many thanks!

Posted by AJ Hoge at September 30, 2005 7:32 AM

An additional thought ... after experiencing several corporate debacles ...
"Leaders answer the challenging questions honestly - even if the answer is Oops!"

About that time your "Thriving on Chaos" captured my perception in your prescript from Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly":
"Three outstanding attitudes - obliviousness to the growing disaffection of constituents, primacy of self-aggrandizement, [and the] illusion of invulnerable status - are persistent aspects of folly."

Posted by Mike Linacre at October 1, 2005 12:13 AM