dispatches from the new world of work

Congratulations, Tom!

I just organized sending flowers for Thanksgiving to about 20 people. And you?

(It's better than Christmas in a way, because it's more or less expected then. Oh, and the "other part": It was great fun to concoct the list—it kept me awake for a couple of hours last night. Giving and saying "thanks" does, indeed, beat the hell out of receiving.)

Tom Peters posted this on 11/21/06.

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Giving is always good. Blessed are those that give ..or something like that is the old beatitudes of Budhha :)-

Posted by /pd at November 21, 2006 10:46 AM

Am very thankful to Trevouuur's new programmme which teaches how to take "all to front-liners" finance & magically make it a Swiss account - hence the vanity plate on our new Escalades's [24" rims] of "Front-Liner". Thanks Mr. TG!

Posted by sean_swiss_thanks at November 21, 2006 11:21 AM

Thanksgiving is a great time to say thank you to customers. I have also seen Valentine's Day done well. Last year I received a pair of chocolate truffles from a vendor with a note attached reading that they "loved doing business with us." Very nice touch especially for those without significant others.

Posted by Kimber at November 21, 2006 11:22 AM

Tom - here's a virtual Thanksgiving gift and written thanks for another year of great advice, berating, encouragement, cajoling, ranting, leading and inspiration.

Sean - naughty! You know Trevor's heart is in the right place :-)

Posted by Mark JF at November 21, 2006 11:52 AM

Mark - TG has keys to your new CLK63 AMG Cabriolet in the mail - Thank$$$Giving :>] TG rules '07 ...

Posted by sean_swiss_thanks at November 21, 2006 12:49 PM

Thanksgiving greetings Sean and Mark - sorry a bit late with this posting ... been 'earning a crust' as we say here in ol' Blighty ... Then I was counting my money taken from front line staff ... yours sincerely Robin Hood :-)

Posted by Trevor Gay at November 21, 2006 5:37 PM

Please let me convey "Sir" TG's Special Thanks to the MAN himself for international diamond & platinum courier professionalism - Johannesburg, London, Milano, Bangkok, Singapore, Adelaide, Profuturo, Novosibirsk, et al - AND to PLAY it as "passion" and "excellence" driven - brilliant & genius.

Posted by sean_TP_envy at November 22, 2006 9:35 AM

I'm happy to say I'm among the ones who GOT the flowers, and receving is pretty good, too. Thank you, Tom. They're gorgeous. Again, Happy Thanksgiving to all.

Posted by cathy mosca at November 22, 2006 12:02 PM

Sweet flowers Tom! Juli Ann is all giddy. HAHA! You made her day. Thanks alot! Have a great day tomorrow!

Posted by rachel gaddy at November 22, 2006 3:05 PM

Sean - your kindness is only exceeded by your vanity and good looks :-)

I'm 'on the road' for a few days doing some legalised stealing of money from corporate world as I am asked to 'teach' leadership - I must have perfected this great 'slight of hand' skill. You just cannot 'teach' leadership but hey, people pay me so I will keep takin' their money .. more power to front liners I say! I will try to look in on TP Blog in the next few days to enjoy your compliments as always, Yours sincerely, Dick Turpin :-)

Posted by Trevor Gay at November 22, 2006 5:40 PM

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just saw this on Slashdot:

Ben Rothke writes
"In Search of Stupidity gets its title from the classic, albeit infamous business book In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies, by Tom Peters and Robert Waterman. In Search of Excellence quickly became a best-seller when it came out in 1988 and launched a new era of management consultants and business books. But in 2001, Peters admitted that he falsified the underlying data. Librarians have been slow to move the book to the fiction section."

http://books.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/22/1423216&from=rss

Posted by Stephen at November 22, 2006 7:48 PM

Holidays are also turning...GLOBAL!

In Bangalore, at least a hundred thousand professionals work in Contact Centers. Most of them serve the U.S. Market, and during Thanksgiving, most of them will have no real work to do! So companies organize big Thanksgiving Events, complete with Turkey Dinners, and their employees join in the Thanksgiving celebrations, from India.

It really is a global village, right?

Happy Thanksgiving!

Jay, from Bangalore

Posted by Jayakumar Hariharan at November 22, 2006 10:01 PM

There is not one ounce of falsified data in In Search of Excellence. The infamously titled Fast Company story was "cleverly" titled by a "friend."

I was merely drawing a distinction between our company selection processes and Jim Collins.'

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Posted by tom peters at November 23, 2006 8:03 AM

slashdot themeselves dont fact check what they post.. I have seen them scrub and apolgies on the comments section . CowboyNeal was kewl and hip at one time..

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As I read some of fyour Comments, I worry, based on my title, that you think my goal was self-adulation. In fact what I was trying to do was shame you! (Or at least get you thinking about the people you mightt not otherwise "thank" on "thanks"giving.)

Posted by tom peters at November 25, 2006 10:33 AM

Title understood perfectly and feeling suitably shamed ... Anyone who believes you seek 'self adulation' has not read enough of your work. Belated Happy thanksgiving from England.

Posted by Trevor Gay at November 25, 2006 7:42 PM

Belated Happy Thanksgiving from Hong Kong!

Posted by K.Sriram at November 27, 2006 1:18 AM