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I’m feeling in a ‘thank you’ mood on this glorious sunny and warm Friday afternoon in springtime England.

Thanks Cathy - another inspirational 2 minutes.

Thanks Tom – you’ve already created a massive legacy and loads more still to come.

Thanks to all the TP team for this series - we are indeed fortunate to ‘see’ Tom free of charge.

QUESTION: How many gurus with Tom’s profile do you know who GIVE AWAY FREE as much of their material?

Please think carefully and then tick one of the following answers:

None …..

OR

None …..

Posted by Trevor Gay at April 23, 2010 10:27 AM

Seconding the profound "thank you" for all of the thought, work, testing and free distribution of material. This is called "grace"!

A ray of sunshine in the springtime rainy snowy morning of the Northern Rockies!

Posted by Randy Bosch at April 23, 2010 11:03 AM

Awesome,
I start thinking of my days as my ongoing legacy, one day at a time.
Sounds a lot like the Japanese kaizen principle, improving each and every day in itzy-bitsy tiny steps - eventually unleashing the snowball effect of excellence !

Posted by Mars Dorian at April 23, 2010 1:00 PM

Trevor's comment got me thinking how much of my professional "Legacy" is actually linked to what I learned and applied from Tom's work over the years. I can say virtually damn near all of it and it is linked to one book, "A Passion for Excellence, a video I don't recall the title of that gave examples of Excellent companies, and a trip to Memphis in 1990. The book made me see how the things I was doing as a "leader" helped make the terrific folks on my team...well...the terrific folks on my team! Getting out of the office, asking their opinions, removing barriers etc! Our success go me tasked to help set up our wings's TQM program. The book had terrific examples of what General Bill Creech was doing in the Tactical Air Command. This enabled me to take the Baldrige Criteria our programs were based on and use those examples (duly attributed!)to our wings leadership on how they were linked and aligned to the criteria. This enabled them to "get it" and overcame a ton of resistance to get them off that management by rank mindset to one of leading by enabling their folks to excel. The video was more great examples and that narrator dude in it was passionate, expressive, angry, clear...exactly the type of "change" in teaching style that those teaching "change" need adapt. The trip to Memphis was to see one of Tom's seminar's what was more excellent examples and actionable concepts but, most importantly, an opportunity to see what presentation EXCELLENCE really looked like. A terrific message that shut two very vocal critics at my table the hell up and had them scribbling notes and brainstorming how they could use this information about two hours in to the morning...

I kinda just kept repeating what I learned and things have gone pretty well Legacy wise. I've seen a few copies of The Little Big Things show up in my workplace. Now, if we could get all of us on those same pages...

Posted by Dave Wheeler at April 24, 2010 2:22 PM

Powerful video Tom! You are absolutely correct - the legacy we leave at the end of each day is a personal choice that has a huge impact on our personal brands.

I've shared your video with my readers in my Rainmaker top five blog picks of the week (found here: http://www.maximizepossibility.com/employee_retention/2010/04/the-rainmaker-fab-five-blog-picks-of-the-week-3.html) to remind them of this important lesson.

Be well!

- Chris Young

Posted by Chris Young at April 25, 2010 7:59 PM