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Perks!

Taking part in Leaders in Sydney tomorrow. Another participant is Anita Roddick. Quite simply, I think she is one of the most remarkable human beings, women, entrepreneurs in the world. Among other things, who else has offered such a dramatic and sustaining example of the possibility of business as a force for goodness & virtue? I had the chance to chat with her last night—and it stripped away, in seconds, my accumulated exhaustion. (Lucky me.)

[Check out her books:
Business as Unusual: My Entrepreneurial Journey
Body and Soul: Profits with Principles]

Tom Peters posted this on 10/25/05.

Comments

Anita Roddick was one of the people I wrote about in my leadership dissertation ten years ago after reading Body and Soul - what an amazing person. I love how she said in the book she had yet to be inspired by any business man. I also love the story of her going to the Bank Manager in the beginning - with her baby in her arms and passion in her head - to borrow 500 pounds for her business ideas. She was turned down flat. She went back with her husband and a business plan and got the money. My kinda gal! â€“ I would love to meet her!

Posted by Trevor Gay at October 25, 2005 9:31 AM

She's helped challenge my assumption that business is always about profits over people... and helped me realize that another way is possible.

Bravo!

Posted by AJ Hoge at October 26, 2005 5:39 AM

I always use Anita roddick as one concrete example of a spiritual marketer. She is a complete entrepreneur, equipped with MindWare (IQ), HeartWare (EQ), and SoulWare (SQ).

Today's wicky-wacky marketing landscape surely needs more people with creative imagination like her.

Posted by Hermawan Kartajaya at October 29, 2005 12:03 PM