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Thanks for the photo - love Bucharest there in 2000 - as we know the city is at latitude 44 - quite far north [Portland, Oregon] ... lovely snow - and we're getting it in the northwest this year to the max.

Posted by Sean at March 14, 2006 9:09 AM

Dear Mr. Peters:

It is interesting all the places you visit.

It will be very interesting to know more about how you manage your time.

Hopefully some day you give some advice about this.

Regards from Mexico

Juan Miguel Robles
COO
Deisa

Posted by Juan Miguel Robles at March 14, 2006 9:42 AM

Thanks for this Tom.

My wife goes to Romania every year... seeing Bucharest all lit up with snow in your photo has made my morning.

Sean - Portland? That's where I am...

Posted by Robert Bruce at March 14, 2006 11:10 AM

Robert - Portland an incredible city - lived there in early '90s - be there for multiple visits this spring ...

Posted by Sean at March 14, 2006 11:16 AM

Dear Tom,

Thank you for a great day - today! I was impressed with your presentation in Bucharest and I hope I will apply most of your ideas and wisdom.

Warm regards,
Raluca.

Posted by Raluca Mandache at March 14, 2006 3:50 PM

The mere fact that you even claim that you went out into that for a powerwalk proves that you are an a**kicker!

Posted by Scott Segal at March 14, 2006 6:03 PM

Tom , Many Thanks for the photo.

Here is Bloomington(IL), we are just about getting out of winter. Not quite there yet ...

Posted by Namith at March 14, 2006 6:54 PM

I was wondering what your impressions were from Romania regarding their creativity. Recently we were looking for some design work on eLance. Out of the 25+ companies that bid on the work we started working through the process of reviewing everyone's portfolio for creativity and our interpretation of quality design. We all agreed on a short list of 5 companies and were amazed to find that 4 of them were located in Romania. We had nothing but a positive experience working with the company and was just wondering if our experience was just a coincedence or if Romania has done something special to nurture creativity similar to what India has done to nurture engineering.

Posted by David Brown at March 15, 2006 1:28 AM

Dear Mr.Peters,

I am a great fan of yours reading your books as soon as they are puplished. If you may remember me, I am the first guy who got your book signed in the Bucharest, Tufan (you may find info about me at http://www.tkaraca.com/cv if interested), anyhow it was great to see you in real life after all these years admiring you and I was very impressed.

In the conference you have mentioned that we may download (which I did before the conference anyway) and use your slides, every now and then I give some small seminars, speechs in meetings and universities and I am also writing a book in my mother tongue (Turkish) and I was wondering if I may use some of the slides (as you have mentioned) with your permission.

Regards

Tufan Karaca

Posted by Tufan Karaca at March 15, 2006 3:00 AM

"I was wondering if I may use some of the slides (as you have mentioned) with your permission." Tufan, absolutely! Theft is the whole idea! (I had a great time at the seminar--and felt very welcome. Hope to return in the not tooo distant future.)

Posted by tom peters at March 15, 2006 6:46 AM

Scott, I was totally completely wiped after my 9-6 1-man seminar. (Plus its 5X harder in a Romania than in a Chicago--dealing with significant cultural differences is the hardest act bar none.) But being wiped and the prospect of awful weather was the perfect motivator. ("If you can make it here you can make it anywhere, or some such.) And on top of that, of course, the endorphin-high kicked in along the way. The levelof self-satisfaction was embarrassing, even in private.(Whoops, I realize I'm writing about yesterday night's walk, not the Monday walk you referred to. Oh well.)

Posted by tom peters at March 15, 2006 6:54 AM

Keep on power walking Tom .... good for the cardio system and prep for marathon 2008 :-) We are running minimum 15k per week now ...

BUT ALWAYS REMEMBER

It's important to keep fit as you get older; my granny started walking 5 kilometres a day when she was 60. Today she's 97 and we don't know where the hell she is!

Posted by Trevor at March 15, 2006 6:59 AM

Dear Mr. Peters, it has been an honor and grate pleasure for me to be part of your EXCELLENCE conference yesterday (14 March 2006) in Bucharest. I am bringing your RE-IMAGINE energy with me in Bulgaria. If you or your friend needs real estate service in Bulgaria, please be free to ask me. You will find out that we are the real estate professionals in Bulgaria.
Yours truly,

Posted by Tsvetan Varbanov at March 15, 2006 7:15 AM

Hey Trevor,

You can walk slowly as long as you don't walk backwards....I DID'NT SAY IT. Ab Lincoln DID!

Posted by K.Sriram at March 16, 2006 5:12 AM

Hello Again Mr.Peters, I am Tufan (the one who is stealing your slides). You inspired me in your seminar to do something that I had been thinking to do for a long time when you said, if you want to do something do it (giving exapmle of healtcare seminar you gave in middle east) and I have decided to start writing my book in Turkish on "How to Write A Business Plan". I know, there are thousands of books on amazon, but non in Turkish, in Turkish tere are only a couple of books which are quite basics. I want to write a good book and then start to use it ro start my new PSF for Business Planing Consultancy.

Just wanted to let you know that I am INSPIRED from you.

Have a great day

Tufan Karaca

Posted by Tufan Karaca at April 3, 2006 8:49 AM