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VT on Friday! Just saw Connecticut relatives in Seattle [lucky beautiful clear weather] - they speak highly of VT except VT judges and media quirkiness!

Posted by Sean at April 25, 2006 10:00 AM

Just look at the branding on the tails of the BA planes....as a Brit it is great to see the Union Flag back instead of the multi coloured ones introduced a few years ago. From Brand yuk to brand yes!

Posted by Anna at April 25, 2006 10:33 AM

Tom,

I think that you probably tweak your presentations based on the group you are presentint to, but I know that you work from the same slide master and that some of the topics you discuss, you've been preaching for 20+ years. I was just wondering if you ever get tired of presenting similar material day after day. You've probably been asked this question as often as the Rolling Stones get asked "Is it still exciting to play Start Me Up live?"

Posted by Adam at April 25, 2006 11:13 AM

Anna - I agree on the branding and color choice. Adam - I bet the ka-ching mega-factor makes the road for Tom and the RS quite easy to "start me up" for time after time [would for me anyway] :>} ...

Posted by Sean at April 25, 2006 12:34 PM

Adam, slide Master turns over about 50% per year, with complete new segments added about twice a year. Absolutely--some ideas are stable! (Eg the people stuff.) Some aren't,. Each audience is ... TOTALLY ...different. Remember the slides are my notecards not the speech.

Motivation? See the Siberia posts that follow this one.

Sean, there's no way in hell, for instance, that I'd have gone to Siberia for the bucks. Ever heard of "I love what I do and the outlandish priveledge of doing it"?

Posted by tom peters at April 25, 2006 1:02 PM

Tom - think you are celeb elite though - having cake and dining on it with Snapple - lifestyle for most isn't there quite yet maybe mid summer :>} ...

Posted by Sean at April 25, 2006 1:53 PM

Happy to see you're feeling great Tom. Apparently it´s been a fruitful tour.

Posted by Felix Gerena at April 25, 2006 2:59 PM

Sean .... have cake and eat too. No doubt about it ... I am one lucky dude!

Posted by tom peters at April 25, 2006 10:41 PM

Tom.... Good to hear that you still subscribe to that marvellous old adage "the more you practice - by going to Siberia if that is where the fun gig is - the luckier you get"... Great to hear that Tom Peters has got his groove back - if indeed it ever left you....

Stay well and have fun!!!

Richard.

Posted by Richard Lipscombe at April 25, 2006 11:48 PM

Great stuff Tom, good to hear the tour went went well, and thanks for the pictures and slides.
If I may, two book recommendations for VT or your next travels: Both these received rave reviews in the Economist. Thriller "The third woman" by Brit Mark Burnell. Also "Intuition" by American Allegra Goodman - had to ration myself to a chapter a night. Reads like a thriller too - setting is a biological research lab in Harvard, late 1980s.
Enough from me.

Posted by Michael from UK at April 26, 2006 6:55 AM